exhibit
/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ verb, noun
Forms exhibits exhibiting exhibited
- verb (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest. “He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.”
- verb (transitive) To demonstrate. “The players exhibited great skill.”
- verb (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence. “I now exhibit this bloody hammer.”
- verb (intransitive) To put on a public display. “Will you be exhibiting this year?”
- verb (medicine) To administer as a remedy. “to exhibit calomel”
- noun An instance of exhibiting.
- noun That which is exhibited.
- noun A public showing; an exhibition. “The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.”
- noun (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court. “Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.”
Synonyms
display show show off demonstrate showing exhibition exposition expose demo present parade march
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- 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; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.
- verb 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.
- noun Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
- noun A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
Etymology [L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See Habit.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “exhibit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details