526} manifestation; plainness &c adj.; plain speaking; expression;
showing &c v.; exposition, demonstration; exhibition, production;
display, show; showing off; premonstration†.
exhibit [Thing shown].
indication &c (calling attention to) 457.
publicity &c 531; disclosure &c 529; openness &c (honesty) 543,
(artlessness) 703; panchement.
evidence &c 467.
V. make manifest, render manifest &c adj.; bring forth, bring forward,
bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent,
set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view,
expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's
eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to
light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out;
bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold
up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show
one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no
secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim &c (publish) 531.
indicate &c (direct attention to) 457; disclose &c 529; elicit &c
480.1.
be manifest &c adj.; appear &c (be visible) 446; transpire &c (be
disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the
face, rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell
its own tale &c (intelligible) 518.
Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent,
in the foreground, notable, pronounced.
flagrant; notorious &c (public) 531; arrant; stark staring;
unshaded, glaring.
defined, definite.
distinct, conspicuous &c (visible) 446; obvious, evident,
unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident,
autoptical†; intelligible &c 518.
plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday;
plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose
on one's face, plain as the way to parish church.
explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day;
naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric.
unreserved, frank, plain-spoken &c (artless) 703; candid
(veracious) 543; barefaced.
manifested &c v.; disclosed &c 529; capable of being shown,
producible; inconcealable†, unconcealable; no secret.
Adv. manifestly, openly &c adj.; before one's eyes, under one's nose,
to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the
stage, in open court, in the open streets; in market overt; in the face
of day, face of heaven; in broad daylight, in open daylight; without
reserve; at first blush, prima facie [Lat.], on the face of; in set
terms.
Phr. cela saute aux yeux [Fr.]; he that runs may read; you can see it
with half an eye; it needs no ghost to tell us [Hamlet]; the meaning
lies on the surface; cela va sans dire [Fr.]; res ipsa loquitur [Lat.];
clothing the palpable and familiar [Coleridge]; fari quae sentiat
[Lat.]; volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It]; you don't need a
weatherman to know which way the wind blows [Bob Dylan].