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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
showing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a film is showing (also a film is on British English) (= it is being shown at a cinema)
▪ The film is on at the Odeon Cinema.
a gallery is showing/exhibiting sth
▪ The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
be on/be showing at the cinema
▪ Do you know what’s on at the cinema?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ Timber held its own, but needed a good showing from Southerns to do so.
▪ It follows his good showing in Labour's shadow cabinet elections yesterday.
▪ They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain's Olympic squad.
▪ After his good showing the previous autumn Nathan was coming too.
poor
▪ By comparison with this vitality, Chichester made a comparatively poor showing.
▪ In my view, the above-quoted explanations for the poor showing, although valid, are too superficial.
▪ The poor showing of school work experience is striking.
▪ But the alternative - to have him believing her poor showing had been caused by drugs, was equally untenable.
▪ The Social and Liberal Democrats also performed well - in contrast to their poor opinion poll showing.
▪ For what a poor showing they had made, the four of them, that afternoon!
▪ I'd make a very poor showing in a court.
strong
▪ Morrison's strong showing in recent years reflects its performance as a recession-proof business.
▪ Influenced by our strong local-government showing in Birmingham and the Midlands, I advised June and that was clearly the majority view.
▪ As in the Patiño sale, decorative works of art made a strong showing.
■ VERB
make
▪ By comparison with this vitality, Chichester made a comparatively poor showing.
▪ The starter's flag had now officially fallen, and Peter McKenzie was determined to make an immediate showing.
▪ Her husband Francis had made a slightly better showing than her daughter Jennifer, who was looking particularly ragged.
▪ Twenty parties are registered to fight the election and some of the smaller ones are making a respectable showing.
▪ Children comparing ideas about keeping healthy could make a class graph showing what they consider contributes to health.
▪ But they make very little showing in the archaeological record.
▪ I'd make a very poor showing in a court.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We went to the 7:30 showing at the theater on Third Avenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But tomorrow it comes to the region for its second national showing.
▪ I rather gather Geoffrey, my youngest, has got a nice mare showing.
▪ In my view, the above-quoted explanations for the poor showing, although valid, are too superficial.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Showing

Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. Showed; p. p. Shownor Showed; p. pr. & vb. n. Showing. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce['a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw?n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw?n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk?da, Icel. sko?a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. ??? to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. Caution, Scavenger, Sheen.]

  1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).

    Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest.
    --Matt. viii. 4.

    Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
    --Milton.

  2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

    Shew them the way wherein they must walk.
    --Ex. xviii. 20.

    If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away.
    --1 Sam. xx. 1

  3. 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

  4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.

    I 'll show my duty by my timely care.
    --Dryden.

  5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

    Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
    --Ex. xx.

  6. To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.

    To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse.

    To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously.

    To show up, to expose. [Colloq.]

Showing

Showing \Show"ing\, n.

  1. Appearance; display; exhibition.

  2. Presentation of facts; statement.
    --J. S. Mill.

Wiktionary
showing

n. 1 An occasion when something is shown. 2 A result, a judgement. vb. (present participle of show English)

WordNet
showing
  1. n. the display of a motion picture [syn: screening, viewing]

  2. something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art" [syn: display, exhibit]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "showing".

A new transparency appeared, showing how the two portfolios would be reported under the traditional, accrual accounting and the mark-to-market approach.

And even the private schools, traditionally viewed with suspicious dislike by state education officials, were hit by surprise inspections so seldom that the very act of an accreditation team, showing up unannounced at one of them, was tantamount to an accusation of educational hanky-panky.

Buchanan describes a case illustrative of the etiology of spontaneous amputation of limbs in utero Nebinger reports a case of abortion, showing commencing amputation of the left thigh from being encircled by the funis.

Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.

Hugo concluded by announcing that 500 francs would be given for a peace essay, and 500 francs for the best collection of facts showing the horrors of war.

Handsome foliage and blossoms, showing much of anthers, growing on the banks of the Itchen canal.

And anthrax could be distinguished by the characteristic X ray showing a swelling of the lymph nodes between the lungs, in the part of the chest known as the mediastinum.

They were supported by local Jacobin militants who had either been harassed during the federalist ascendancy or who simply enjoyed showing off their anticlerical zeal.

Stephen noticed, for the first time, that the faded blue eyes were showing the first signs of that whitish ring, the arcus senilis.

Suppose you begin the story by showing Harriet getting the appetizers ready in the kitchen.

Florilegium would go on showing here as long as we had a single artiste capable of performing.

Heiren custom, Bannock explained, all signatories to an important pact were supposed to prove their good intentions by showing themselves in a public place.

BRIEFING ROOM - LATER A video image of SEAMEN aboard a telephone-cable ship showing the sheared fiber optic cable to the camera as Barnes, laser pointer in hand, delivers a briefing.

The maximum rise of pressure recorded was registered at Halifax, the self-recording barographs showing that the pressure rose over six centimetres in less than five minutes.

One did catch his eye, a mosaic piece showing Bassin du Sud as it had looked a couple of centuries ago, with only the grim bulk of the castle on its hill, and a small walled village at its feet.