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REVEALING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The speech act of making something evident
Synonyms:
disclosure; revealing; revelation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("revealing" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revealing"):
singing; tattle; telling (disclosing information or giving evidence about another)
display (behavior that makes your feelings public)
divulgement; divulgence (the act of disclosing something that was secret or private)
discovery (something that is discovered)
discovery ((law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case)
giveaway (an unintentional disclosure)
informing; ratting (to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors))
leak; news leak (unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information)
exposure (the disclosure of something secret)
Derivation:
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disclosing unintentionally something concealed
Example:
a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down
Synonyms:
revealing; telling; telltale
Classified under:
Similar:
informative; informatory (providing or conveying information)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Showing or making known
Example:
a revealing glance
Classified under:
Similar:
indicative; indicatory; revelatory; significative; suggestive ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)
scanty; skimpy ((of clothing) revealing the body)
Antonym:
concealing (covering or hiding)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb reveal
Context examples:
A lengthier name possibly revealing more about an entity than the shorter Preferred Name but intended to have the same meaning.
(Long Name, NCI Thesaurus)
As southern winter solstice approaches in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been revealing dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)
The vast majority of stellar black holes in our galaxy are not engaged in a cosmic banquet, though, and thus don't emit revealing X-rays.
(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then she remembered how they had drawn mutually away before the revealing moon, and she knew he would know it for a lie.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
That would be excellent timing, so consider revealing it after January 3, when you will have Mars in Sagittarius, a very fortunate time to make a big debut.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We compress the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing what they are. But that is a mere detail.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This hint of more oxygen in Mars' early atmosphere adds to other Curiosity findings — such as evidence about ancient lakes — revealing how Earth-like our neighboring planet once was.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
“Although addiction is a brain disease, this discovery underscores how the body’s complex functions are exquisitely interconnected, revealing the need for integrated and innovative research.”
(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)
LiDAR bounced pulsed laser light off the ground, revealing contours hidden by dense foliage in the 2,100-square-kilometer mapped area.
(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)
NASA's Apollo astronauts installed five seismometers that measured thousands of quakes while operating on the Moon between 1969 and 1977, revealing seismic activity on the Moon.
(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)
