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UNVEIL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the veil from

Example:

Women must not unveil themselves in public in some religious societies

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "unveil" is one way to...):

expose; uncover (remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

veil (to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove the cover from

Example:

unveil a painting

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "unveil" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

unveiling (putting on display for the first time)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make visible

Example:

He brings out the best in her

Synonyms:

bring out; reveal; unveil

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "unveil" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unveil"):

disclose; expose; uncover (reveal to view as by removing a cover)

excavate; unearth (recover through digging)

trot out (bring out and show for inspection and admiration)

unfold (open to the view)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Brazil's National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, unveiled the details surrounding the discovery of hundreds of remains of pterosaur bones and 300 eggs—some of them with preserved embryos—in China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze roused me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, senior authors Dan Sheldon and Subhransu Maji along with lead author Tsung-Yu Lin, all with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and others unveil their new tool MistNet.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

This may happen through an assignment you receive now or that you will unveil to others in several weeks or months.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thanks to Hubble's exquisite sharpness, the photo unveils the effect of space warping due to gravity.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

You might bring your new app to market (or sign the work order to begin designing it), launch your website, show your screenplay to an influential agent, unveil your new software program, start a series of podcasts, defend your thesis, write your application for a grant, share your medical research in a prestigious journal, or do anything else within the communication arts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)