exhibit

CEFRB2

/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/

verb · noun

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01
verb
To show something publicly or as evidence.
02
noun
An object shown publicly in a museum or display.

Examples

Can I see the special exhibit with this ticket?
Seals have been known to exhibit aggressive behaviour towards swimmers.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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verb

Extra meanings

To demonstrate.
To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.

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They are going to exhibit many famous old paintings at the gallery.
He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.
I now exhibit this bloody hammer.

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The museum will blank a rare collection of ancient artifacts next month.

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Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
The swimmer who is an expert does not exhibit his muscular force by violent movements, but exhibits some power which is invisible and which shows itself in perfect grace and reposefulness.
1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan, page 128
Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460
A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.
2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12
And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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Origin

verb

From Latin exhibitus, perfect passive participle of exhibeō (“to hold forth, present, show, display”), from ex (“out of, from”) + habeō (“to have, hold”); see habit.

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verb

The museum will blank a rare collection of ancient artifacts next month.