Reveal

Noun

 * 1) The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
 * 2) * Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:
 * The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures.
 * 1)  A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
 * The reveal in that movie was great.

Architecture

1. The space between a window or door frame and the outside edge of the wall

Quotations

 * 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals
 * The reveal is a narrative/dramatic element so pervasive that its power can be underestimated by the beginning filmmaker because, in a sense, each shot reveals something.
 * 2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography
 * A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.
 * 2004, Fred Karlin, On the Track
 * Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]

Verb

 * 1)  To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
 * 2)  To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

Synonyms

 * communicate
 * disclose
 * discover


 * divulge
 * impart
 * open


 * show
 * uncover
 * unveil

Related terms

 * revelation

Adverbs for Reveal
penetratingly; candidly; vividly; graphically; immodestly; daringly; traitorously; partially; concisely; deplorably; spaciously; strikingly; unmistakably; fluently; injudiciously; dismally; painfully; courageously; supernaturally.

Thesaurus
affect, air, argue, bare, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, betray, brandish, break it to, break the news, break the seal, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, characterize, clear, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, connote, dangle, demonstrate, denominate, denote, deobstruct, develop, differentiate, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, dismask, display, divulgate, divulge, dramatize, draw the veil, embody, enact, entail, evidence, evince, evulgate, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose, expose to view, express, ferret out, fish up, flaunt, flourish, free, give, give evidence, give out, give sign, give token, give vent to, highlight, hint, identify, illuminate, impart, incarnate, indicate, involve, lay bare, lay open, leak out, let daylight in, let get around, let in on, let on, let out, let slip, make clear, make known, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, note, open, open up, out with, parade, patefy, perform, present, produce, publish, raise the curtain, represent, roll out, root up, set forth, show, show forth, show up, signify, spotlight, stand for, strip bare, suggest, symptomatize, symptomize, tell, testify, token, trot out, turn up, unblock, uncase, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclutch, uncork, uncover, uncurtain, undo, undrape, unearth, unfold, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel, unlatch, unlock, unmask, unpack, unplug, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unstop, unveil, unwrap, utter, vent, ventilate, wave, worm out

Etymology
From révéler:, from earlier  revelare:, from re-: + velare:, from velum:.

Translations

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 * Estonian: paljastama
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 現す (あらわす, arawasu)


 * Korean: 나타내다 (natanaeda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌رخستن
 * Latin:, patefacio
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: odkrywać, odsłaniać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: выявлять (vyjavlját’)
 * Spanish: ,
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 * Telugu: వెల్లడించు (vellaDiMchu)

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