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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reveal
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a study reveals sth (=shows something, especially something surprising)
▪ A recent study revealed that 74% of donuts are bought on impulse.
a survey shows/reveals sth
▪ Our survey showed that many women are afraid to go out alone at night.
an inspection reveals sth
▪ The inspection revealed several lapses in safety standards.
disclose/reveal/release details (=make secret information public)
▪ The company has refused to reveal any technical details until next month.
expose/reveal/show sth's/sb's limitations (=show where something or someone is not very good)
▪ The film shows his limitations as a actor.
reveal the presence of sth/sb
▪ Excavations revealed the presence of an ancient burial ground.
reveal the truth
▪ She’d promised never to reveal the truth.
reveal/disclose sb’s identity (=show or say who a person is)
▪ The company did not reveal the identity of the prospective buyer.
reveal/divulge a secretformal (= tell it to someone)
▪ He was accused of revealing state secrets.
show/reveal the extent of sth
▪ These pictures show the extent of the devastation caused by the earthquake.
▪ A report published by the government has revealed the extent of air pollution in the area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It was also revealed that Captain Vassilis Yannakis had been in command of at least one other ship that sank.
▪ The paper also revealed the questionable activities and backgrounds of several deputies.
▪ It also reveals in the latest year that dividends payable were greater than profits for the year.
▪ The report also revealed interesting local variations.
▪ This exercise will also reveal the likely users of the information system.
▪ The papers also reveal Avis executives had been aware of the allegations for at least a decade.
▪ It can also reveal areas for growth and work, aiding progress and maturity.
▪ In a more unsettling development, the report also revealed a big jump in prices paid for raw materials.
how
▪ It reveals how thousands of Shias have fled across the border to escape.
▪ In other words, the outside surface would not necessarily reveal how the framework of the building was constructed.
▪ Finally, the study reveals how information specialists' subjective orientations further individualize the use of this ideology.
▪ He provided documents to the committee that revealed how the forced-labor system works.
▪ Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time.
▪ This example reveals how the search for regularities is structured and the methods that are used.
▪ But Community Care can reveal how she so easily fell prey to her son and lost almost everything.
▪ It is revealing how generously the artists to whom the college wrote responded to the invitation.
yesterday
▪ It was revealed yesterday when the document detailing the William Hill sale was sent to shareholders.
▪ We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her.
▪ But his 11-year-old pal panicked because he was frightened of getting into trouble, it was revealed yesterday.
▪ The rift was revealed yesterday when a charge that he attacked lover Joanna Gibson was dropped at her request in court.
▪ The dressing-down comes as a 60 percent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday.
▪ The full horror of the attack was revealed yesterday by the bloody scene inside the white van.
▪ And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there.
■ NOUN
detail
▪ It projects an image of the Sun that fills a wall, revealing fine details on the boiling solar surface.
▪ It reveals pathetic details about the Clintons' marriage, their personalities and their judgment.
▪ Barleycorn can reveal the details of the new Managers Car Scheme.
▪ Garven said he could not reveal details of the draft report.
▪ In Clare's brief Journal, too, are entries that reveal the detail of the heath landscape.
▪ E and her company are too preliminary to reveal details of the new system.
▪ Police are revealing few details about the fifth victim, who at this stage they are not linking definitely with the others.
▪ He revealed details of the royal couple's unhappy marriage and told of Diana's bulimia.
extent
▪ If we had had something similar before, this would have revealed the full extent of our Director's motoring convictions.
▪ Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
▪ The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family.
▪ Noades has revealed the full extent of fury from Selhurst Park supporters at what they perceived as his personal attack on Coppell.
▪ The case reveals the extent to which the church as an institution was coupled with the nation.
▪ Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.
▪ That the vanguard was so severely curtailed reveals the extent of the Soviet Union's conservatism, conformism and inferiority complex.
▪ Table 8.1 revealed the extent to which flexible exchange rates have been adopted.
identity
▪ Cory reveals his identity as a member of Space Security.
▪ It revealed his identity as the estranged son of a wealthy senator, whom he had served for the past seventeen years.
▪ The Bolton Area Health Authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers.
▪ Mr Goldinger has declined to answer questions or reveal the identities and the losses suffered by dozens of investors.
▪ She asked the woman on the settee to reveal her identity.
▪ Authorities said Friday night that they had identified the woman but would not reveal her identity until relatives had been notified.
▪ I am also supposed to have died, according to the surprised traders to whom I have revealed my identity over the phone.
▪ It's just that it seems a pity for him to reveal his identity.
name
▪ Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager's name.
▪ This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
▪ At the minimum we would be under pressure to reveal the names of the Chairman.
▪ Holmes wants Lenhart to reveal the names of grand jurors who contacted her about a controversial Bellaire police slaying.
▪ The E numbers search reveals the chemical name and applications of the additive.
▪ The cut is more for comfort than to reveal a designer name on the waistband of a pair of briefs.
▪ Straight genomics has revealed the names of the stations, but without showing how they connect with one another.
▪ Colin Dexter says he will reveal the name in his final book.
nature
▪ It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries.
▪ It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality, but not so much as to overwhelm.
▪ But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world.
▪ It is a grandiose occasion that reveals the nature of both the institution and its members.
▪ It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences.
▪ The predictability of the direct objects of gnash and purse is revealed by the pleonastic nature of?
▪ Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour.
night
▪ McHale hinted that he may make as many as four changes for the trip, but was not revealing anything last night.
▪ He is considering an appeal against his five-year sentence, it was revealed last night.
▪ Manager Kevin Keegan revealed last night that the experienced pair will go on the transfer list on Monday.
▪ It was revealed last night that the Lord Chancellor wants a report after complaints about the judge from other women staff.
number
▪ The radar reveals a number of poleward-moving regions in which the electron temperature is elevated by a factor of 1.5.
▪ After purchasing a card from a vendor or through the mail, customers scratch off the surface to reveal their account number.
▪ In this we reveal the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre present in the useful canned and packaged foods.
▪ It was clearly a time of emotional upheaval, as revealed by a number of uncomfortable disclosures.
▪ Sir Antony revealed a number of bids from interested parties were under consideration and a Sola announcement was pending.
▪ Boeing declined to reveal the number of planes involved in those dollar totals and market shares.
▪ In spite of their inevitably unsatisfactory character they reveal a number of points of importance.
▪ Then, and only then, do the players reveal their serial numbers and determine who is bluffing whom.
report
▪ Todays report reveals that the pressure she was under is far from rare.
▪ The report also revealed interesting local variations.
▪ The Beveridge Report was revealing on this.
▪ Instead of hearing eight separate opinions, they melded their ideas into two reports that revealed considerable overlap.
▪ A federal government report revealing that diets don't work has triggered a revolt against the £20 billion slimming industry.
▪ In a more unsettling development, the report also revealed a big jump in prices paid for raw materials.
▪ One environmentalist said last night that the report would reveal whether that criticism had been fair.
▪ The NetValue report also revealed that women are now more active users of the Net than men.
secret
▪ The charges included conspiracy, espionage, revealing state secrets and threatening the Constitution.
▪ But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
▪ He did not reveal his secret to his brothers, or to any of his friends in his village.
▪ But Evelyn felt quite sure that he would not reveal her secret.
▪ Theresa when she described one of her mystical visions as revealing to her the secrets of the Trinity.
▪ Who do you reveal your secrets to?
▪ It provided simple, useful information, but revealed no secrets.
study
▪ Finally, the study reveals how information specialists' subjective orientations further individualize the use of this ideology.
▪ Study after study reveals the dangers of lightly trafficked streets near home for young children.
▪ Nationwide studies reveal that savings card holders spend an average 33 percent more, or $ 36, on groceries each week.
▪ Case studies also reveal evidence of local discretion in other respects.
▪ Tree-ring studies have revealed severe infestations of spruce budworms even in pre-settlement days.
▪ A study of these emendations reveals countless examples of the replacement of one stylistic variant by another.
▪ Other studies have revealed similar findings.
survey
▪ The survey reveals much greater support for reform than previously thought.
▪ Our survey revealed a noise pollution impact on the community that is not imagined.
▪ The survey reveals a staggering lack of understanding about rural Britain.
▪ The surveys also revealed why changing the system will be so difficult.
▪ They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters.
▪ Barclays' survey reveals that £100 deposited in a savings account in 1899 would have grown to £13,601 today.
▪ They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 percent believe bank loans are interest-free.
▪ We prayerfully proceeded with the purchasing process, only to have the property survey reveal a £5,000 defect.
truth
▪ Shouldn't it be the people who have as their driving force the desire to reveal truths about human life?
▪ You know about my father: Scripture is revealed truth.
▪ But the Stone finds ways and means of revealing the truth to guide moles forward.
▪ Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
▪ But in the end Mrs Pegler is unwillingly forced to reveal the truth.
▪ Surface appearances, however, reveal only surface truths.
▪ Next week we could be warning, exposing, or revealing the truth about anything from holidays to your spring bulbs.
week
▪ Will revealed this week how he had therapy to help with the guilt.
▪ That's what was revealed this week.
▪ Six other international plants are to get the same treatment, and their identities will be revealed within a week.
▪ Her solution, it was revealed this week, was to fake her own abduction.
■ VERB
open
▪ Beyond is another door, which opens to reveal an ancient lavatory.
▪ But once we enter this world it begins to open up, revealing greater and greater subtleties.
▪ But this is a novelty book and many of the pages can be opened like envelopes to reveal all sorts of goodies.
▪ Later, she opened her jacket to reveal her Payne shirt.
▪ She opened the door to reveal an Army officer, who promptly saluted her.
▪ Mr Hendricks ordered until Billy opened his mouth, revealing the black gap of a missing front tooth.
▪ Four minutes past two ... I open the lid and reveal a discouraging mass of loose papers.
▪ The door swings open to reveal an empty top shelf.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A medical examination may reveal evidence of dietary deficiencies.
▪ A slight trembling of his hands revealed his growing excitement.
▪ Carter's face was a blank, revealing no emotion.
▪ Ginsberg withdrew his application to become Attorney General after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana at college.
▪ His letters reveal a different side of his personality.
▪ Markov revealed that he had once worked for the CIA.
▪ Positive tests have revealed why some athletes were so reluctant to co-operate.
▪ Separate holidays and weekends apart reveal more clearly than any words the state of their marriage.
▪ She lifted the lid of the box to reveal a life-size porcelain baby doll.
▪ The company has just revealed its plans for the coming year, including the opening of new offices in Paris.
▪ The fact that there are no black officers in the entire regiment reveals that the army is not serious about its anti-discrimination policies.
▪ The look on my face must have revealed my embarrassment.
▪ The President's refusal to meet the press reveals just how serious the crisis is.
▪ The way he spoke in the bar afterwards revealed prejudice and bitterness that I had never suspected.
▪ The wooden doll opened to reveal a smaller doll within.
▪ What actually happened to the gold has never been revealed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A routine physical reveals an irregularity.
▪ His character appears to reveal the wolfhound in him.
▪ Naturally a candidate's response may alter once our client's identity is revealed.
▪ Tests will reveal if this is necessary since on test the solenoid valve will operate sluggishly or not at all.
▪ That was written in 1909 and, later, a similar awareness is revealed by Ozenfant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reveal

Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.

  1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]

  2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

Reveal

Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing.] [F. r['e]v['e]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil.]

  1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

    Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
    --Waller.

  2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

    Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show.

    Usage: See Communicate. -- Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. ``Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.''
    --Locke. ``A tragic history of facts divulged.''
    --Wordsworth.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reveal

late 14c., from Old French reveler "reveal" (14c.), from Latin revelare "reveal, uncover, disclose," literally "unveil," from re- "opposite of" (see re-) + velare "to cover, veil," from velum "a veil" (see veil (n.)). Related: Revealed; revealing.

Wiktionary
reveal

n. 1 The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. 2 (context cinematography comedy English) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden. 3 (lb en chiefly UK Australia NZ obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. vb. (context transitive English) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

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WordNet
reveal

  1. v. make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings" [syn: uncover, bring out, unveil]

  2. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" [syn: disclose, let on, bring out, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out]

  3. make clear and visible; "The article revealed the policies of the government" [syn: display, show]

  4. disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"

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Wikipedia
Reveal (R.E.M. album)

Reveal is the twelfth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 2001 on Warner Bros. After having adjusted to former drummer Bill Berry's departure and releasing Up to mixed response in 1998, R.E.M. released the more upbeat Reveal, co-produced with long-time collaborator Patrick McCarthy. The album was released to generally positive reviews from music critics.

In 2002, R.E.M. allowed each track of the album to be remixed by different producers and members of the music industry. The resulting remix album, r.e.m.IX, was available as a free download from R.E.M.'s official website. In 2005, Warner Bros. Records issued an expanded two-disc edition of Reveal which includes a CD and a DVD, as well as the original CD booklet with expanded liner notes.

Reveal

Reveal or Revealed may refer to:

  • Reveal (carpentry), a type of joint
  • Reveal system, a system of plant classification
  • Reveal (narrative), in show business and literature, the exposure of a "twist"
  • Reveal (project), a research project, founded unter the EU 7th Framework Programme
  • Reveal Weekly, a radio program co-produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Public Radio Exchange
Reveal (rapper)

Mehrak Golestan ( Persian: مهرک گلستان) (born 29 December 1983) is a British musician of Iranian descent.

He appeared on the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight on 9 August 2011 discussing the London riots of 2011.

He is the son of Iranian photographer Kaveh Golestan and the grandson of writer and film director Ebrahim Golestan.

Reveal (song)

"Reveal", written by Per Gessle with Marie Fredriksson, is the second single released from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 2006 album Roxette Hits.

Gessle was reportedly unhappy with the original version that featured on the Hits album. For the song's single release it was given a subtle remix, with the middle eight section redone. The new single version was released digitally on 10 January 2007. A physical release came on 27 February 2007, featuring two additional remixes and the video to the group's previous single, " One Wish" There is no video for this single.

It charted in Sweden for one single week, peaking at #59.

Reveal (carpentry)

In carpentry, a reveal is a feature resembling a rabbet, but constructed of separate pieces of wood. A reveal may typically be seen at the edge of a door or window, where the face molding is set back, often by a distance from 3/16" (5 mm) to 1/2" (12 mm,) to reveal the edge of the casing plank.

A "tight reveal" is where the distance to the edge of the casing is kept as small as possible, to give a smoother, more consistent look, often thought to be more contemporary. This is often achieved on a cabinet door by notching out the area of the door where the hinge mounts.

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Reveal (Fischer-Z album)

Reveal is an album by the new wave rock band Fischer-Z. In the summer of 1981 John Watts split up with his group, Fischer-Z, on the grounds that his art could not evolve within the context of the band. Prompted by the encouragement of the well-received Fischer-Z album, Red Skies Over Paradise, Watts soon embarked on a solo career, releasing his first solo album, One More Twist (1982), followed quickly by his second, The Iceberg Model (1983). Watts toured extensively and even produced a mini-album for Zulu artist Busi Mhlongo. He released an album entitled Quick Quick Slow under the name The Cry in 1984.

After touring and releasing an album per year up until 1985 John Watts was trying to resolve his role of constantly touring with that of being a father of two children. Over the ensuing years he started to develop and record new material with multi-talented musician, Ian Porter. In 1987 John Watts began to record material under the Fischer-Z name again — but, with one twist — Watts was now the only original member of the group and it was his "musical vision". Original Fischer-Z keyboardist, Steve Skolnik, did however make a minor contribution to the album.

Reveal (narrative)

The reveal (also known as the big reveal) is a plot device in narrative structure, and is the exposure to the reader or audience of a previously hidden key element of plot or of the performance. This may result in a plot twist, and could be the key plot turn or unexpected coda in the story - in the mystery genre, for example. It may also be used as a device (particularly in the climax) in stage magic by an illusionist or escape artist.

In a magician's act, "the reveal" may refer to

  • the normal culmination of a trick
  • the unexpected (to the audience) culmination of the trick
  • an explanation of the trick - which itself may be immediately eclipsed by a version of the trick that the first reveal can't explain

A reveal is different from Aristotle's anagnorisis, in which something is revealed to a character rather than to the audience.

Usage examples of "reveal".

You know that, by revealing yourself as an Aberrant, you could hurt us badly.

Whether Walter West let him watch while he abused young girls, or whether he encouraged his son to take his place, or whether, in fact, he abused him directly Frederick West was never to reveal.

The whole middle expanse of Asia was not academically conquered for Orientalism until, during the later eighteenth century, Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit.

We would need an accelerator to slam matter together with energies some million billion times more powerful than any previously constructed in order to reveal directly that a string is not a point-particle.

I have done extensive experiments using the new Planck energy accelerator and they have revealed that this prediction is precisely confirmed.

The principles of everything we are acquainted with must necessarily have been revealed to those from whom we have received them by the great, supreme principle, which contains them all.

On my view of characters being of real importance for classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist.

So Cap had a theory to explain the strange sequences the Judy Lab had revealed: chimpanzee, human, and hybrid all in the same animal, laced with sequences from the adenovirus that did most of the splicing.

THIS decision by a final court of adjudicature, expresses in no uncertain terms the now generally estimated value of evidence which science may reveal.

Surveys reveal that the effectiveness of print advertising is greatly enhanced when the guarantee or warranty is substantiated.

His keen eyes detected slight aerosol droplets, revealed in a shaft of sunlight viewed against shade.

The pious Agaric sought to find the cause of this, but was unable to discover it until old Cornemuse revealed it to him.

Letters were found at the Admiralty which revealed the complicity of the Reverend Father Agaric in the plot.

He plays as well as he sings, thought Alec, wondering what other talents would reveal themselves as he got to know Seregil better.

The language was unfamiliar, yet so liquid, so graceful in the ear that it seemed Alec could almost grasp it-and that if he did it would reveal a depth of meaning his own language could never achieve.