different between narrate vs reveal

English

Etymology

In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?næ?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

narrate (third-person singular simple present narrates, present participle narrating, simple past and past participle narrated)

1. (transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

   Synonym: tell

2. To give an account. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: report

Derived terms

• aforenarrated

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Verb 1

narrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of narrare
2. second-person plural imperative of narrare

Verb 2

narrate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of narrare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /na?r?ra?.te/, [nä?r?rä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nar?ra.te/, [n?r?r??t??]

Verb

n?rr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of n?rr?

Participle

n?rr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of n?rr?tus

English

Etymology

From Middle English revelen (“to reveal”), from Middle French reveler, from Old French, from Latin revelare (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + velare (“to cover”), from velum (“veil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: re?veal

Noun

reveal (plural reveals)

1. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
   • 2010, Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:

     The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures[1].

2. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.

   The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
3. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, 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.

Quotations

• 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [3]

  The reveal is a narrative/dramatic element so pervasive that its power can be underestimated by the beginning filmmaker because, in a sense, each shot reveals something.

• 2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography [4]

  A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.

• 2004, Fred Karlin, On the Track [5]

  Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]

Synonyms

• (side of a window or door opening): revel
• (side of a window or door opening): jamb

Verb

reveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)

1. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
   • c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero

     Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
2. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

Synonyms

• (to show): uncover, unfold, unveil; see also Thesaurus:reveal
• (communicate): disclose, divulge; see also Thesaurus:divulge

Derived terms

• revealed religion
• revelation

Translations

Anagrams

• Leaver, laveer, leaver, vealer