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English
Etymology
From Latin exhibitus, perfect passive participle of exhibeō (“I hold forth, present, show, display”), from ex (“out of, from”) + habeō (“I have, hold”); see habit.
Pronunciation
Verb
exhibit (third-person singular simple present exhibits, present participle exhibiting, simple past and past participle exhibited)
- (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.
2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.
- (transitive) To demonstrate.
The players exhibited great skill.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
- (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
I now exhibit this bloody hammer.
- (intransitive) To put on a public display.
Will you be exhibiting this year?
- (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
to exhibit calomel
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Translations
display or show (something) for others to see
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пока́звам (bg) impf (pokázvam)
- Catalan: exhibir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 展覽/展览 (zh) (zhǎnlǎn)
- Danish: vise (da), fremvise, stille til skue
- Dutch: tonen (nl), tentoonstellen (nl)
- Esperanto: ekspozicii
- Finnish: esitellä (fi)
- French: exposer (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: zeigen (de), zur Schau stellen, ausstellen (de), vorzeigen (de)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fauramēljan)
- Greek: εκθέτω (el) (ekthéto), παρουσιάζω (el) (parousiázo)
- Ancient: ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi)
- Hungarian: kiállít (hu)
- Italian: mostrare (it)
- Khmer: បង្ហាញ (km) (bɑnghaañ)
- Ladin: purter
- Latin: ostendō, exhibeō (la), praestō
- Macedonian: и́зложи (ízloži)
- Maori: whakamātakitaki
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: pokazywać (pl), pokazać (pl)
- Portuguese: exibir (pt)
- Romanian: expoza, arăta (ro)
- Sanskrit: दिशति (sa) (diśati)
- Spanish: exhibir (es)
- Swedish: visa upp (sv)
- Tagalog: itanghal
- Telugu: ప్రదర్శించు (te) (pradarśiñcu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: göstermek (tr), sergilemek (tr)
- Vietnamese: trưng bày (vi), phô bày (vi)
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Noun
exhibit (plural exhibits)
- An instance of exhibiting.
- That which is exhibited.
- A public showing; an exhibition.
- The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
- (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
- Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
article as evidence in court
Further reading
- “exhibit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “exhibit”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Pronunciation
Participle
exhibit (feminine exhibida, masculine plural exhibits, feminine plural exhibides)
- past participle of exhibir