Show Up

Definition: Show Up

Show Up

Verb

1. Appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again".

2. Be or become visible or noticeable; "His good upbringing really shows"; "The dirty side will show".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Show Up

Accusation

Inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against; blow upon.

Disapprobation

Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.

Disrepute

Impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Manifestation

Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish).

Ridicule

Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up.

Crosswords: Show Up

You know, I have made a career out of waiting for you to show up. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You think some fairy godmother's gonna show up at midnight and turn me into a lawyer (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Whenever the journalists show up, I'll just destroy them (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

You didn't show up that night (Misunderstanding; performing artist: Genesis)

When we show up (Go Deep; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ms. Thang, Real Knights Don't Show Up at 3 in the Morning: What Every Black Woman Needs to Know About Love, Intimacy, and Relationships (reference)

• The New Life Community Choir Featuring John P. Kee: Show Up! (reference)

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They're the Royal Canadian Mounties of the immune system-the heroes who show up in the nick of time-and they take on all bacterial invaders, be they salmonella, listeria, pasteurella, or E. coli. They're infection-fighting white blood cells called heterophils, and poultry immunologist Michael Kogut has found a way to make them do his bidding to protect young poultry. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

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Health

Symptoms of HD usually show up in very young children. (references)

But sarcoidosis can also show up suddenly with the appearance of skin rashes. (references)

This internal damage may show up many years later in the late or tertiary stage of syphilis. (references)

Business

Such imports do not show up in official import data. Colombian imports currently represent ten percent of the Latin American total market, third after Brazil and Mexico. (references)

As the deadlines are approaching and the bulldozers start work, suppliers start shipping and service providers get positioned, maybe it would help if the parties involved started fearing that Jupiter may show up to watch the games. (references)

Children

Moldova

The Minister of Education stated that more than 7,000 students did not show up for the first day of classes in the autumn; however, press reports cited a Ministry of Education estimate that 25 percent of students in rural schools did not attend school. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

The passage of the new mortgage law in mid-2001 could start to show up in increased lending for real estate activities by early 2003. (references)

Japan

The local government investment promotion efforts are also hampered by the fact that the local government is usually in the position of setting rigid conditions to qualify for incentives (by law), and sitting back and waiting for firms to show up which meet those criteria. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Police often fail to show up or lack the means to transport the remandees, who then must await the next hearing of their case. (references)

Ethiopia

In addition judges have been shifted among cases, judges fail to show up for hearings, or new judges are not reassigned upon the death or incapacity of assigned judges in time for hearing dates. (references)

Political Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On March 28, following a decree by HDZ officials ordering the temporary disbandment of the Croat contingent of the Federation Army, up to 8,000 Croat soldiers did not show up for work. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

The police periodically show up uninvited at labor seminars and union meetings, which can have an intimidating effect. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "show up": show up well ♦ To show up. Additional references.

Albanian

spikat (catch the eye), shfaqem (appear, crop up, dawn, develop, emerge, peep, peer, pop up, roll up), mbërrij (appear, arrive, come, draw in, get, turn up), dukem (appear, appear to be, arise, come into view, emerge, feel, manifest, seem, show, show oneself, sound, stand out), del në pah. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضح (compromise, disclose, disgrace, expose, exposure, shame, unmask), ‏كشف (bare, bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, divulge, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, reveal, revelation, take off, uncover, unearth, unfold, unveil), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, steer, touch, voucher), ‏وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), ‏حفر ويخرج الحفر, ‏إستنكر (censure, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, mow, reprobate, reprove), ‏أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex), ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, spring, surface, turn up, walk), ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

явявам се (appear, come, dawn, intervene, materialize, present, raise up, render, roll up, show, walk), откроявам се (be outlined, relieve, silhouette, stand out), мяркам се (float, run through), засенчвам (adumbrate, blanket, dim, efface, obscure, outshine, out-top, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shade, upstage), придружавам до горе, появявам се (appear, arise, blossom, come, come about, come forward, come into view, come on the scene, flicker, issue, manifest, outcrop, rise, start out), поканвам да се качи, изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, signalize, single out, throw up, urge), изобличавам (denounce, nail), изпъквам (beetle, bulge, come across, excel, get out of ruck, jut out, project, protrude, relieve, stand out, stand up against, tell). (various references)

Chinese 

到� � (be present). (various references)

Czech

odhalit (be on to smb., bring out, detect, disclose, expose, find out, reveal, show smb. up, spy out, unbosom, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unfold, unlock, unmask, unveil), dostavit se, být jasnì vidìt. (various references)

Danish

poroesiteterne kan goeres synlige ved udsivning,eller ved hjaelp af en speciel kobberaetsning,der lader de sejgrede omraader staa lyst:poroesiteterne fremtraeder da sort paa den lyse baggrund. (by a copper etch selected so as to show up the segregated zones in white ; the porosities then appear as black on the white segregated background, even better, the porosities may be revealed by penetrant inspection or), paa brudfladen i deformerede produkter ses fnug som lyse linser,hvis diameter ligger mellem 1 mm og nogle centimeter (the diameter of which varies from 1 mm to several centimetres, the flakes show up on the fracture surface of worked products as pale lenses). (various references)

Dutch

de vlokken in breukvlakken van vervormde produkten zien eruit als lichte lenzen waarvan de diameter varieert tussen 1 mm en enkele centimeters (the diameter of which varies from 1 mm to several centimetres, the flakes show up on the fracture surface of worked products as pale lenses), de poreusiteiten kunnen door middel van penetrante inspectie zichtbaar gemaakt worden of-wat nog beter is-door een zodanige koperetsing dat de uitgescheiden zone witgekleurd wordt;de poreusiteit is dan in zwart zichtbaar op de witte segregatie-achtergrond (by a copper etch selected so as to show up the segregated zones in white ; the porosities then appear as black on the white segregated background, even better, the porosities may be revealed by penetrant inspection or). (various references)

Finnish

tulla saapuville (appear, present oneself, put in an appearance, turn up), paljastaa (bare, disclose, draw, expose, lay bare, reveal, uncover, unveil). (various references)

French

se ramener, ressortir, parade, faire honte � , faire honte, faire apparaître, dénoncer, démasquer, arriver. (various references)

German

aufkreuzen (roll along, tack). (various references)

Greek 

εμφανίζομαι (appear, come into view, come up, make one's appearance, set in, turn up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וקיע (belie, denounce, disclose, divest), ל�"ופיע (appear, arrive, come out, seem, shine, show, turn up), ל�"ביך (abash, baffle, bewilder, confound, disconcert, embarrass, maze, nonplus, perplex). (various references)

Hungarian

megmutat (showed, shown, to point, to reveal, to show), feltûnik (appear, emerge, perform, turn up). (various references)

Italian

smascherare (debunk, expose, unmask), risaltare (stand out, stick out). (various references)

Manx

lhomey (divest, draw, draw as sword, emergence, lead, stripping, sweep, uncover). (various references)

Pig Latin

owshay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

realçar (accent, accentuate, contrast, emboss, emphasize, enhance, feature, focus, foil, point, set off, show, show off, underline, urge), notar-se (arise, show), mostrar-se (make an appearance, parade, show, unfold), mostrar (bare, create, demonstrate, denote, designate, develop, discover, display, draw, drew, evince, exert, exhibit, hold up, indicate, intimate, keep up, offer, point out, produce, record, reflect, reveal, set forth, show, show off, signify, to show, turn up, unfold, unmask, wear), estar presente (assist, stand by), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elicit, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay open, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unkennel, unmask, unveil), aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, emerge, hang out, perform, rise, show, to appear, turn up). (various references)

Romanian

dezvãlui (appear, bare, debunk, disclose, divulge, evolve, lay bare, reveal, show, uncover, unfold, unveil), demasca (catch out, debunk, demonstrate, denounce, exhibit, expose, lay open, throw off the mask, unmask), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), arãta (appear, bespeak, betoken, carry forth, connote, demonstrate, designate, display, evidence, evince, exhibit, lay out, look, Mark, point, point out, produce, prove, put up, read, record, reveal, rise, seem, set, show, signify, teach, trot out), apare (appear, come out), a-şi face apariţia (come out, enter an appearance, make one's appearance, manifest, set in). (various references)

Russian 

явиться (appear, come), разоблачать (belie, denounce, disclose, divest, expose, uncloak), обличать (expose), появляться (appear, come out, dawn, emerge, make an appearance, manifest, spring, turn up), изобличать (belie, convict, inculpate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razotkriti (take the veil, uncover, unrip), pojaviti se (appear, crop up, shape, start up, turn out, turn up). (various references)

Spanish

sacar a luz (bring out, bring to light, come to light, dredge up, put out), revelar (bring to light, come to light, develop, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, give out, let out, manifest, process, publish, reveal, show), poner de manifiesto, perfilarse, hacer subir (bring up, call up, push up, send up), hacer resaltar (bring out, pick out, project, set off, show off), entregar (concede, consign, convey, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, spend, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield), destacarse (pull ahead, stand out), desenmascarar (debunk, expose, unmask), avergonzar a, aparecer (appear, arrive, come into view, come on, come on the scene, come out, come up, develop, emerge, emersion, intervene, loom, loom up, peep out, peer, perform, roll up, show, to appear, turn up, walk). (various references)

Swedish

uppvisa (display, exibit, indicate, point out, present, show), förete (exhibit, offer, present, produce, show). (various references)

Turkish

ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, burst, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, emerge, fall out, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, spawn, spring, surface, turn up), ortaya çıkarmak (bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to pass, conceive, detect, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, get at, hit off, lay bare, pick out, search out, sift out, smoke out, throw into relief, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unveil), gelivermek (happen on, happen upon, supervene), gözler önüne sermek (display, reveal, set out, show off), göstermek (adduce, betoken, demonstrate, denote, depict, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, represent, run, set out, shew, show, show off, signify, speak, stamp, table, teach, trot out, uncork), görünmek (appear, approve oneself, break through, come, come along, come in sight, come in view, come into view, come out, haunt, look, make one's appearance, present oneself, put in an appearance, report, rise, seem, show), belli olmak (appear, be clear, be understood, shine out, show), çıkagelmek (blow in, erupt, happen along, happen in, pop in, pop up, roll up, turn up). (various references)

Ukrainian

виявлятися (come out, come to light, prove, transpire), викривати (accuse, belie, debunk, denounce, inculpate, unclose, unfrock, unmask), виділятися (emboss, exude), з'являтися (appear, arise, come, dawn, emerge, ghost, make an appearance, present oneself, walk). (various references)

appareant, appareas, appareat, apparebant, apparebat, apparebis, apparebit, apparebo, apparebunt, apparens, apparente, apparentes, apparentibus, apparere, apparerent, appareret, apparet, apparuerat, apparuerimus, apparuerint, apparueris, apparuerit, apparuerunt, apparui, apparuisse, apparuisset, apparuistis, apparuit, apparuitque. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ouphs, whops.

-2 letters: hops, hows, opus, ouph, posh, pows, push, shop, show, soph, soup, swop, whop, wops.

-3 letters: hop, how, hup, ohs, ops, poh, pow, pus, sop, sou, sow, sup, upo, ups, who, wop, wos.

-4 letters: ho, oh, op, os, ow, sh, so, uh, up, us, wo.

+2 letters: pushdown, southpaw, upthrows.

+3 letters: pushdowns, southpaws, supershow, upgrowths.

+4 letters: powerhouse, supershows, worshipful.

+5 letters: cowpunchers, powerhouses, supergrowth.