reveal
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[edit] Etymology
From French révéler, from earlier Latin revelare (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + velare (“to cover”), from velum (“veil”).
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[edit] Noun
reveal (plural reveals)
- The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
- (Can we date this quote?) 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:
- (cinematography) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
- The reveal in that movie was great.
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- 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [1]
- 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 [2]
- 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 [3]
- Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]
[edit] Verb
reveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)
- (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
- (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
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to uncover
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