different between exhume vs reveal

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin exhum?, from Latin ex- + hum? (“to to bury”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks.?(h)ju?m/, /??.?zju?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.s(j)um/, /???z(j)um/

Verb

exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

   The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To uncover; to bring to light.
   • 2009, S. E. Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories (page 47)

     Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

Synonyms

• dig up, disinter, unbury, unearth

Antonyms

• bury, inhume, inter

Derived terms

• exhumation
• exhumer

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zym/

Verb

exhume

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
5. second-person singular imperative of exhumer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e???ume/, [e????u.me]

Verb

exhume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhumar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English revelen (“to reveal”), from Middle French reveler, from Old French, from Latin revelare (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + velare (“to cover”), from velum (“veil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: re?veal

Noun

reveal (plural reveals)

1. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
   • 2010, 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].

2. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.

   The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
3. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.

Quotations

• 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [3]

  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 [4]

  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 [5]

  Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]

Synonyms

• (side of a window or door opening): revel
• (side of a window or door opening): jamb

Verb

reveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)

1. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
   • c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero

     Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
2. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

Synonyms

• (to show): uncover, unfold, unveil; see also Thesaurus:reveal
• (communicate): disclose, divulge; see also Thesaurus:divulge

Derived terms

• revealed religion
• revelation

Translations

Anagrams

• Leaver, laveer, leaver, vealer