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Verb

  1. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
  2. To be easily visible; to be conspicuous.
  3. To make visible; to expose.
  4. To make visible or expose faults and deficiencies in, usually by outdoing, outperforming, or outcompeting another.
  5. To produce an impression on observers; to come off.

Noun

  1. The showing of a suspect to a victim by police in the hope of identifying the suspect as the culprit.
  2. At Eton College, a reward for good schoolwork (which is shown to one's housemaster and tutor and signed).

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