outshowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /aʊtˈʃəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /aʊtˈʃoʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

動詞

outshow (third-person singular simple present outshows, present participle outshowing, simple past outshowed, past participle outshown)

1. (transitive, puristic or archaic) To show or present publicly; exhibit openly.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Aegloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     He blushed to see another Sun below, / Ne durst again his fiery face outshow.

   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     And yet the king did all their lookes outshow.

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (transitive) To surpass or exceed in showing; exceed in being shown, especially in contest, competition, or rivalry.
   • 1873, Cultivator and country gentleman: Volume 38:

     Mazurka 13th, now owned by Mr. Streator, at ten years old Is dam of eight living calves at single births, and we don't know a cow of her age that can outshow her.

   • 1902, William George Bruce, William Conrad Bruce, National School Boards Association, The American school board journal: Volumes 24-25:

     Surely it is not vainglory nor a desire simply to outshow other nations which lead to the enormous expenditures involved in every international exposition.

名詞

outshow (uncountable)(puristic)

1. The act of openly showing or revealing; display; exhibition.
   • 1871, The American quarterly church review, volume 22:

     We deal only with the facts, the outshow of the theory to which we object.

2. An example.
   • 1976, Poul Anderson, Homebrew:

     For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; [...]

アナグラム

• show out, show-out