unveil
to show, to reveal
TRANSLATION
unveil = präsentieren, enthüllen, aufdecken, zur Schau stellen --- GOOGLE INDEX unveil: approximately 29,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
South Korea to UNVEIL Policies to Boost Corporate Investments
(Bloomberg News headline)
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to UNVEIL.
(American cartoonist and journalist Frank McKinney Hubbard)
(Bloomberg News headline)
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to UNVEIL.
(American cartoonist and journalist Frank McKinney Hubbard)
Did you
know?
unveil
verb
- (fig.) show or announce publicly for the first time
- remove a veil or covering from, in particular uncover (a new monument or work of art) as part of a public ceremony
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Unveil is a so-called "unverb" formed by combining veil — to cover or hide something — and the prefix -un. Veil is from the Old French veler, voiller and further from the Latin velare "to cover" (from the noun velum). The figurative sense of concealing something is recorded from the mid 16th century.
As Ben Zimmer writes in the Visual Thesaurus, the un- prefix has come in two basic flavours since Old English. It can be used like the word "not" to negate adjectives (unkind, uncertain, unfair) and the occasional noun (unreason, unrest, unemployment). Or it can attach to a verb to indicate the reversal of an action (unbend, unfasten, unmask).
In Old English there were two types: the negative prefix un-, which is etymologically related to the German un- and Latin in-, and the reversing prefix on(d)-, which is related to the German ent- and Greek anti-. These two prefixes merged into one form, un-, and they've been semantically intertwined ever since.
Zimmer also points out that in the days when reporters sent their reports via telex cables, they used un- as a sort of short hand to save space. Instead of "does not have" for instance, the reporter would simply write "unhave." Copy editors would of course turn it back into "does not have" for the printed story.
The Internet and social media are producing a new group of modern unverbs so that words like follow, friend, favourite and like are transformed into unfollow, unfriend, unfavourite, and unlike.
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SYNONYMS
reveal, bring to light, disclose, display, divulge, expose, make known, make public, present, show, uncover
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The new product will be unveiled at the next trade fair."
verb
- (fig.) show or announce publicly for the first time
- remove a veil or covering from, in particular uncover (a new monument or work of art) as part of a public ceremony
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Unveil is a so-called "unverb" formed by combining veil — to cover or hide something — and the prefix -un. Veil is from the Old French veler, voiller and further from the Latin velare "to cover" (from the noun velum). The figurative sense of concealing something is recorded from the mid 16th century.
As Ben Zimmer writes in the Visual Thesaurus, the un- prefix has come in two basic flavours since Old English. It can be used like the word "not" to negate adjectives (unkind, uncertain, unfair) and the occasional noun (unreason, unrest, unemployment). Or it can attach to a verb to indicate the reversal of an action (unbend, unfasten, unmask).
In Old English there were two types: the negative prefix un-, which is etymologically related to the German un- and Latin in-, and the reversing prefix on(d)-, which is related to the German ent- and Greek anti-. These two prefixes merged into one form, un-, and they've been semantically intertwined ever since.
Zimmer also points out that in the days when reporters sent their reports via telex cables, they used un- as a sort of short hand to save space. Instead of "does not have" for instance, the reporter would simply write "unhave." Copy editors would of course turn it back into "does not have" for the printed story.
The Internet and social media are producing a new group of modern unverbs so that words like follow, friend, favourite and like are transformed into unfollow, unfriend, unfavourite, and unlike.
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SYNONYMS
reveal, bring to light, disclose, display, divulge, expose, make known, make public, present, show, uncover
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The new product will be unveiled at the next trade fair."
