reveal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reveal	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for reveal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reveal v make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her" Synonym(s): uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" Synonym(s): unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reveal \Reveal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revealing}.] [F. r[82]v[82]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See {Veil}.] 1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal* her own. --Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. Usage: See {Communicate}. -- {Reveal}, {Divulge}. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. [bd]Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.[b8] --Locke. [bd]A tragic history of facts divulged.[b8] --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reveal \Re*veal"\, n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) 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. [Written also {revel}.]