different between reveal vs stutter

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Verb

stutter (third-person singular simple present stutters, present participle stuttering, simple past and past participle stuttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

   He stuttered a few words of thanks.

2. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

   The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope. I was stuttering after the marathon.

Synonyms

• (speak with spasmodic repetition): stammer

Translations

Noun

stutter (plural stutters)

1. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

   Synonym: stammer

2. (obsolete) One who stutters.

   Synonyms: stutterer, stammerer

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,^[1]

     And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Truetts, tutters