Associations to the word «Shew»

Wiktionary

SHEW, verb. (archaic) Alternative form of show
SHEW, verb. (East Anglia dialect) simple past tense of show
SHEW, noun. (archaic) A show.
SHEW BREAD, noun. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread.

Dictionary definition

SHEW, verb. Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky