Reveal vs Apparent - What's the difference?
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The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
* (rfdate) Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book :
(cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
(obsolete) 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.
To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
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, title= To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
* 1667, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , ,
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
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* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
* 1785, (Thomas Reid), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man , Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
* 1848 , , (The History of England from the Accession of James the Second) ,
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As a noun reveal
is the outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.As a verb reveal
is to uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.As an adjective apparent is
capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.reveal
English
(wikipedia reveal)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (side of a window or door opening) revelQuotations
* 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=8UkrTrb1y88C&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&sig=9LrVWui5Pc-pHYD23unYfCyHcDg] *: 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 [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=1JL2jFbNPNAC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&sig=mMrBLvPxRrwexc9sNLY0pHRoRDo] *: 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 [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4Dj42oNleXIC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&sig=DCz0jkLLrqsMKmwSlZXFahyBnog] *: Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]Verb
(en verb)- Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
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Synonyms
* bewray * communicate * disclose * discover * divulge * impart * open * show * uncover * unfold * unveilAnagrams
* English reporting verbsapparent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
- Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
- When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
- What (George Berkeley) calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
- To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
- This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}