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reveal

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

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swear

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sw??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /sw??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sweren, swerien, from Old English swerian (to swear, take an oath of office), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjan? (to speak, swear), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (to swear).

Cognate with West Frisian swarre (to swear), Saterland Frisian swera (to swear), Dutch zweren (to swear, vow), Low German swören (to swear), sweren, German schwören (to swear), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (to swear), Icelandic sverja (to swear), Russian ????? (svara, quarrel). Also cognate to Albanian var (to hang, consider, to depend from) through Proto-Indo-European.

The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words).

Verb

swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past swore or (archaic) sware, past participle sworn or yswore)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To take an oath, to promise.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat. []. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
Usage notes
  • In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:swear word
  • See also Thesaurus:swear
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swar?.

Noun

swear (plural swears)

  1. A swear word.
    • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
      You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious.

Etymology 3

From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English sw?r, sw?r (heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak), from Proto-West Germanic *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *sw?raz (heavy), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (heavy).

Cognate with West Frisian swier (heavy), Dutch zwaar (heavy, hard, difficult), German schwer (heavy, hard, difficult), Swedish svår (heavy, hard, severe), Latin s?rius (earnest, grave, solemn, serious) and Albanian varrë (wound, plague).

Alternative forms

  • sweer, sweir, swere

Adjective

swear (comparative swearer or more swear, superlative swearest or most swear)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
  2. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
  3. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
  4. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
  5. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
Derived terms

Verb

swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past and past participle sweared)

  1. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

References

  • swear at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • resaw, sawer, sware, wares, wears

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