| showing |
| 1. v. present participle of show | |
| 2. n. An occasion when something is shown. | |
| We went to the midnight showing of the new horror movie. | |
| 3. n. A result, a judgement. | |
| He made a poor showing at his first time at bat. | |
| show |
| 1. v. To display, to have somebody see (something). | |
| The car's dull finish showed years of neglect. | |
| All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper. | |
| 2. v. To bestow; to confer. | |
| to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please | |
| 3. v. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. | |
| 4. v. To guide or escort. | |
| Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome. | |
| They showed us in. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear. | |
| Your bald patch is starting to show. | |
| At length, his gloom showed. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up. | |
| We waited for an hour, but they never showed. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs. | |
| In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. | |
| 10. n. A play, dance, or other entertainment. | |
| 11. n. An exhibition of items. | |
| art show; dog show | |
| 12. n. A demonstration. | |
| show of force | |
| 13. n. A broadcast program/programme. | |
| radio show; television show | |
| 14. n. A movie. | |
| Let's catch a show. | |
| 15. n. A project or presentation. | |
| Let's get on with the show. Let's get this show on the road. They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual do | |
| 16. n. Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".) | |
| The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show. | |
| 17. n. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance. | |
| 18. n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues. | |
| He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show. | |
| 19. n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp. | |
| 20. n. (archaic) Pretence. | |
| 21. n. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication. | |
| 22. n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance. | |
| 23. n. (obsolete) Plausibility. | |
| 24. n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor. | |
| blushes |
| 1. n. plural of blush | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of blush | |
| blush |
| 1. n. An act of blushing; a red glow on the face caused by shame, modesty, etc. | |
| 2. n. A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red. | |
| 3. n. (figuratively) Feeling or appearance of optimism. | |
| 4. n. A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. | |
| 5. n. A color between pink and cream. | |
| (color panel, FAD1B1) | |
| 6. n. (chiefly US) A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To glance | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To become red in the face due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment. | |
| He wasn't used to this much attention, so he blushed as he saw dozens of pairs of eyes watching him. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become red. | |
| 10. v. To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. | |
| 11. v. To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade). | |
| When he saw it, he blushed a beet red. | |
| I wasn't surprised, but it was embarrassing enough that I blushed a little pink. | |
| 12. v. To express or make known by blushing. | |
| Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers. | |
| The garden was full of blossoms that blushed in myriad shades to form a beautiful carpet of color. | |
| 14. n. The collective noun for a group of boys. | |
| A blush of boys. | |
| rosy |
| 1. adj. Rose-coloured. | |
| 2. adj. Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. | |
| 3. adj. Optimistic. | |
| 4. n. (slang) tea | |
| I wish a cup of Rosy. | |
| I fancy a cup of rosy lee. | |
| Red |
| 1. n. A Communist. | |
| 2. n. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit. | |
| 3. adj. Communist | |
| the Red Army | |
| 4. adj. Having red as its color. | |
| The girl wore a red skirt. | |
| 5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | |
| Her hair had red highlights. | |
| 6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black | |
| I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. | |
| 7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: | |
| 8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party | |
| a red state | |
| a red Congress | |
| 9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ | |
| the red-black grand coalition in Germany | |
| 10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations | |
| 11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. | |
| 12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red. | |
| 13. n. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from | |
| (color panel, F00000) | |
| 14. n. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | |
| 15. n. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | |
| 16. n. Red wine. | |
| 17. n. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank. | |
| 18. n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind. | |
| 19. n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. | |
| 20. n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal) | |
| 21. n. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade | |
| 22. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
| 23. n. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red") | |
| 24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede | |
| 25. v. alternative spelling of redd | |
