Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To show outwardly; display.
- intransitive verb To present for others to see.
- intransitive verb To present in a public exhibition or contest: synonym: show.
- intransitive verb To give evidence or an instance of; demonstrate.
- intransitive verb To put something on public display.
- noun A public showing; an exhibition.
- noun Something exhibited.
- noun Law Something marked for identification with the purpose of being introduced as evidence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To offer or present to view; present for inspection; place on show: as, to
exhibit , paintings; to exhibit an invention; to exhibit documents in court. - To display; manifest conspicuously; bring to light; furnish or constitute: as, to
exhibit an example of bravery or generosity. - To present for consideration; bring forward publicly or officially; make a presentation of.
- In medicine, to administer, as a specified drug.
- In English universities, to hold forth (a foundation or prize) to be competed for by candidates.
- To present or declaim (a speech or an essay) in public.
- To make an exhibition; open a show; present something to public view: as, to
exhibit at the Academy. - In universities, to offer or present an exhibition.
- To present an essay in public; speak in public at an exhibition or college commencement.
- noun Anything or any collection of things exhibited publicly: as, the Japanese exhibit in the Paris Exposition.
- noun A showing; specifically, a written recital or report showing the state of any matter at a particular date, as of the estate of a bankrupt, etc.
- noun In law, a paper attached to a contract, pleading, affidavit, or other principal instrument, identified in and referred to by it; a document offered in evidence in an action, and marked to identify it or authenticate it for future reference.
- noun Synonyms See
exhibition .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display.
- transitive verb (Law) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.
- transitive verb (Med.) To administer as a remedy.
- transitive verb to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates.
- transitive verb [Obs.] to declaim or otherwise present it in public.
- noun Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display
- noun (Law) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
display orshow (something) for others to see, especially at anexhibition orcontest . - verb transitive To
demonstrate . - verb transitive, law To
submit (a physicalobject ) to acourt asevidence . - verb intransitive To put on a public display.
- noun An instance of
exhibiting . - noun That which is
exhibited . - noun A public showing; an
exhibition . - noun law An article
formally introduced as evidence in a court.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- verb to show, make visible or apparent
- verb walk ostentatiously
- noun something shown to the public
- verb show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
- noun an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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My main exhibit is Mike Gene's own book, The Design Matrix.
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My main exhibit is Mike Gene's own book, The Design Matrix.
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The Flavin exhibit is quite large and covers a wide swath of his career from familiar single element installations to reconstructions of larger site-specific works from elsewhere.
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The Flavin exhibit is quite large and covers a wide swath of his career from familiar single element installations to reconstructions of larger site-specific works from elsewhere.
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This exhibit is all about New York and her “vision of their city”, said Ms. Fanucci.
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This exhibit is all about New York and her “vision of their city”, said [...]
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Another exhibit is a basalt and gold amulet in the shape of a scarab beetle, with a blank space on the back where the buyer's name could be written.
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This exhibit is a collection of black-and-white photographs taken by artist Ann P. Meredith over the course of seventeen years.
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Another exhibit is a basalt and gold amulet in the shape of a scarab beetle, with a blank space on the back where the buyer's name could be written.
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This exhibit is all about New York and her “vision of their city”, said [...]
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