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US
/ˈʃu/
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[ UK /ʃˈəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈəʊ/ ]
VERB
-
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture
The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound
How To Use shew In A Sentence
- Full well it _shewn_, he _thoughten_ coste no sinne. The Rowley Poems
- Unroasted nuts such as almonds, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts and walnuts make an ideal snack food.
- He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
- The author, who seems to intend the character of Bonvolio as good, meant perhaps to shew, how the best minds, in a state of faction and discord, are detorted to criminal partiality. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
- Interestingly the manna did not fall on Sabbath, but the shewbread was renewed each Sabbath.
- _ It has been shewn by Dr. Priestley and Mr. Ingenhouz that the green matter at the bottom of cisterns, and the fresh leaves of plants immersed in water, give out considerable quantities of vital air in the sun-shine; that is, the perspirable matter of plants (which is water much divided in its egress from their minute pores) becomes decomposed by the sun's light, and converted into two kinds of air, the vital and inflammable airs. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
- But my imagination, like Elstir engaged upon rendering some effect of perspective without reference to a knowledge of the laws of nature which he might quite well possess, depicted for me not what I knew but what it saw; what it saw, that is to say what the name shewed it. The Guermantes Way
- Scoop in piles of cashews, almonds, macadamias, walnuts, pumpkin seeds or whatever you please.
- Behaviour with which she treats me, her faithful Lover, shews, that it is the prudent, vertuous, chast Galesia. The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
- This is a thick, nutty curry of chicken with cashew nuts, grated coconut, garlic cloves, fresh ginger, coriander, onions & green chillies.