show up
To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
Please come on time; don't just show up whenever you feel like it.
show
UK /ʃəʊ/ US /ʃəʊ/
noun 6verb 5name 1
Definitions
verb
1
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
To bestow; to confer.
to show mercy; to show favour
(dialectal) show me the salt please
3
To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.
4
To guide or escort.
Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.
Who can show me to office? -I'll show in.
5
To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
Your bald patch is starting to show.
At length, his gloom showed.
noun
1
A play, dance, or other entertainment.
There were a thousand people at the show.
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
2
An exhibition of items.
art show; dog show
3
A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
radio show; television show
They performed in the show.
4
A movie.
Let's catch a show.
5
An agricultural exhibition.
I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.
E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds
noun
1
Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
When the flax is ſufficiently watered, it feels ſoft to the grip, and the harle parts eaſily with the boon or ſhow, which laſt is then become brittle, and looks whitiſh.
Laſt year (1793) I tranſplanted, from ſeed-beds, into the nurſery, ſeveral fruit-trees; the ground around ſome of which I covered, as above, with flax-ſhows. Notwithſtanding the great heat of the ſummer, none of thoſe trees where the earth was covered with ſhows, died or decayed; becauſe the ſhows prevented the earth under them from being dried by the ſun.
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