Show business

Definition

show /ʃǝƱ/ n ၁။ [C] ပရိသတ္အားတင္ဆက္သည့္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈ။ ပြဲ။ a TV quiz show ❍ a comedy show on radio ❍ The most successful Broadway shows are often musicals. See also CHAT SHOW ၂။ [C,U] ျပပြဲ။ a flower/horse/cattle show ❍ the motor show (ie where new models of cars are displayed) ❍ Many new computers are on show at the exhibition. ❍ EXHIBITION ၃။ [C,U] (က) ျပင္ပန္း အသြင္သဏၭာန္။ put on a show of defiance/strength/friendship/sympathy ❍ His public expressions of grief are nothing but show. (ခ) ပသာဒ။ a fine show of blossom on the apple trees ❍ all the glitter and show of the circus. ၄။ [sing] ( infml ) ပြဲ။ လုပ္ငန္း။ အလုပ္။ ကိစၥ။ She runs the whole show. ❍ Let's get this show on the road (ie start work). ၅။ [C usu sing ] ( dated infml esp Brit ) လုပ္ပံုကိုင္ပံု။ အလုပ္။ ကိစၥ။ put on/up a good show (eg do well in a contest) ❍ It's a poor show (ie very rude and disappointing) if he can't even send you a card. v ( pt showed ; pp shown /ʃǝƱn/ or, rarely, showed ) ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) ထင္ရွားေစသည္။ သိသာသည္။ ျပသည္။ The figures clearly show (us) that her claims are false. ❍ I'll show him how to do it/what to do. ❍ She showed the technique to her students. ❍ Substantially increased funds show the high priority the government attaches to this scheme. ❍ ‘I'm still your friend, you know. ’ ‘Well, you've got a funny way of showing it!’ ❍ They were shown the pointlessness of their actions. ❍ Her new book shows her to be a first-rate novelist. ၂။ (က) ၫႊန္သည္။ ျပသည္။ Show me which picture you drew. ❍ I showed him the way out. (ခ) ျပသည္။ ၫႊန္သည္။ We were shown into the waiting-room. ❍ The stewardess showed us to our seats. ❍ Please show this lady out. ၃။ ~ sth (to sb) ျပသည္။ You must show your ticket as you go in. ❍ She has shown his letter to all her friends. ❍ They showed me their wedding photos. ၄။ ~ sth (at…) ျပသည္။ ျပသသည္။ The film is being shown at the local cinema. ❍ She plans to show her paintings early next year. ၅။ (က) (လကၡဏာ စသည္)ျပသည္၊ ျပသသည္။ a soldier who showed great courage ❍ The demand for steel is showing signs of slowing down. ❍ She showed herself unable to deal with money. ❍ He has shown himself to be ready to make compromises. (ခ) ျပသည္။ The priest showed (me) great understanding. ❍ They showed nothing but contempt for him. ၆။ ( infml ) (no passive) အစြမ္းျပသည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပသည္။ They think I can't win, but I'll show them! ၇။ ေပၚသည္။ သိသာသည္။ ျပသည္။ Fear showed in his eyes. ❍ She tried hard not to let disappointment show. ❍ Her expression showed her disappointment. ❍ Once again, the stubborn streak in her character showed itself. ❍ Mr Cox began to show signs of impatience. ❍ His annoyance showed itself in his face. ၈။ ထြက္ေနသည္။ ေပၚေနသည္။ Your petticoat is showing, Jane. ❍ His shirt was so thin that his vest showed through (it). ၉။ ျပသည္။ ေပၚသည္။ The town hall clock showed midnight. ❍ The end-of-year accounts show a loss. ၁၀။ ပံုျပသည္။ The cartoon showed the Prime Minister as Superman. ❍ The photo shows her dressed in a black evening dress. ❍ In the portrait he is shown riding a horse. ၁၁။ ( infml esp US ) ေပၚလာ သည္။ ေပါက္လာသည္။ ေရာက္လာသည္။ I waited for him all morning but he never showed. See also SHOW UP ၁၂။ ( esp US ) (ျမင္းပြဲတြင္) ေအာက္ထစ္ တတိယခ်ိတ္သည္။ ❏ for show [ IDM ] ျပ႐ုပ္သက္သက္။ Those books are just for show—she never reads them. ❏ go to show [ IDM ] သက္ေသျပသည္။ It all/only goes to show what you can do when you really try. ❏ (jolly) good show! [ IDM ] ( dated Brit infml ) (ေထာက္ခံ၊ ဩဘာေပးသည့္စကား)။ ❏ show business (also infml showbiz ) n [U] (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ဗီဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္သံအပါအဝင္) သဘင္လုပ္ငန္း။ go/get into show business ❍ show-business personalities. ❏ show (sb) a clean pair of heels [ IDM ] ( infml often joc ) ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ တစ္ႀကိဳးတည္း သုတ္ေျခတင္သည္။ ❏ show sb the door [ IDM ] ထြက္သြားခိုင္းသည္။ He insulted his host, and was promptly shown the door. ❏ show one's face [ IDM ] မ်က္ႏွာျပသည္။ She stayed at home, afraid to show her face. ❏ show one's hand/cards [ IDM ] အႀကံအစည္ကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာဆို၊ ျပသသည္။ I suspect they're planning something but they haven't shown their cards yet. ❏ showing n ၁။ (႐ုပ္ရွင္ပြဲ)ျပသျခင္း။ two showings daily. ၂။ (usu sing ) စြမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္မႈ။ ရလဒ္။ the company's poor financial showing ❍ On (ie Judging by) last week's showing, the team is unlikely to win today. ❏ a show of hands [ IDM ] လက္ေထာင္၍ ဆႏၵျပဳျခင္း၊ မဲ ခြဲျခင္း။ The issue was decided by a show of hands. ❍ Who is in favour of the proposal? Can I have a show of hands, please? ❏ show off [ PHRV ] ( infml derog ) ႂကြားသည္။ ျပစားသည္။ Do stop showing off—it's embarrassing. See also SHOW-OFF ❏ show sb/sth off [ PHRV ] ေဖာ္သည္။ ပြဲထုတ္သည္။ a dress that shows off her figure ❍ She was showing off her new husband at the party. ❍ He likes to show off how well he speaks French. ❏ show-off n ( derog ) သူတစ္ပါးအထင္ႀကီးေအာင္ ျပစားသူ၊ ဟိတ္ထုတ္တတ္သူ။ Take no notice of him—you know what a show-off he is. ❏ show-piece n ျပ႐ုပ္။ ❏ show one's teeth [ IDM ] ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ စြယ္ေယာင္ ျပသည္။ ❏ show up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေရာက္လာသည္။ ေပၚလာသည္။ ေပါက္လာသည္။ It was ten o'clock when he finally showed up. ❍ We were hoping for a full team today but only five players showed up. ❏ show (sth) up [ PHRV ] ျမင္ရသည္။ ေပၚလာသည္။ A fuel leak showed up on the infrared scanner. ❍ Close inspection shows up the cracks in the stonework. ❏ show sb up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( Brit infml ) ေယာက္မျမင္းစီး ထြက္သည္။ He showed me up by snoring during the concert. ၂။ ( esp US ) အခံရခက္ေအာင္ ျပလိုက္သည္။ My daughter really showed me up when she beat me at tennis. ❏ show willing [ IDM ] လိုလွ်င္ကူညီမည့္ပံု ျပသည္။ I don't think they need me, but I'll go anyway, just to show willing. ❏ showy adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( often derog ) ႂကြားလြန္းေသာ။ အစြမ္းျပလြန္းေသာ။ a showy flower /finish. showily /-Çli/ adv showiness n [U] ❏ (have) something, nothing, etc to show for sth [ IDM ] ျပစရာအေကာင္အထည္။ All those years of hard work, and nothing to show for it! ❍ I've only got £100 to show for all the furniture I sold.

Examples

1. The study shows an increase in the disease among the elderly.
2. [show (that)] : The test results show that he could not have committed the murder.
3. [show what/where/why etc] : Accidents like this show what can happen when drivers are not alert.
4. [be shown to do something] : Smoking has been shown to increase the risk of getting lung cancer.
5. [as shown by/in something] : As has been shown by our study
6. young people are less likely to vote.
7. [show someone/something to be something] : The drug has shown itself to be an effective treatment for depression.
8. Members receive a detailed map showing all the major tourist attractions.
9. [show something by something] : The temperature is shown on the diagram by a red line.
10. [show something as something] : Chemical changes are shown on the chart as small circles.
11. The election results were shown on television.
12. The dial showed that the pressure had fallen to a dangerously low level.
13. Try to show an interest in the customer’s needs.
14. Men who find it difficult to show their emotions
15. [show your appreciation/gratitude] : The gift is intended to show our appreciation for all your hard work.
16. [show (that)] : The government has shown that it is not willing to compromise.
17. [show what/how/why etc] : They have shown what they think of our suggestion.
18. A deep sense of sadness showed beneath his cheerful exterior.
19. [show something to someone] : This is the first time the painting has been shown to the public.
20. [show someone something] : I couldn’t wait to show him the letter.
21. [show something to advantage] : The display is designed to show the dresses to advantage.
22. [show someone to something] : Let me show you to your room.
23. [show someone into something] : She showed me into a sunny room where two children were playing.
24. [show someone how/what/which etc] : A young girl showed me how to operate the machine.
25. [show someone something] : Can you show me the right way to do this?
26. [show someone where] : She showed me where I could leave my luggage.
27. They managed to fix it so that the break wouldn’t show.
28. She had chosen a colour that really showed the dirt.
29. [and it shows] : They used the cheapest materials they could find
30. and it shows.
31. It was the first time the film was shown on television.
32. Now showing at a cinema near you!
33. Her work was first shown at a gallery in Munich.
34. I’ve been showing my dogs for over ten years.
35. We didn’t think Austin would show.
36. The next time he use my credit card without permission
37. I'll tell him off for that. That'll show him!
38. He saw that the Gove had been showing a bit of political ankle on Europe – the kind of manoeuvring
39. incidentally
40. which Gove accused both Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of doing on the same programme
41. the cad.