{
  "id": "show.visual",
  "term": "show",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make something be seen",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "make.verb",
      "see.visual"
    ],
    "interaction": "make causes something to be seen",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intentional visibility",
      "shared perception"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Sun emits light visible from Earth, making the Moon seen during lunar eclipses.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider makes proton collisions visible through detector imaging.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Streetlights in Tokyo illuminate roads at night, making pedestrians seen by drivers.",
      "domain": "urban_infrastructure"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "make.verb",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "see.visual",
      "note": "",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "account.financial",
    "advertise.commercial",
    "display.visual",
    "example.illustration",
    "film.entertainment",
    "image.visual",
    "mature.development",
    "movies.entertainment",
    "screen.visual",
    "sign.symbolic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "show",
    "showed",
    "showing",
    "shown",
    "shows"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-show.visual"
}