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UK
/ɛɡzˈɪbɪt/
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[ US /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ ]
VERB
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walk ostentatiously
She parades her new husband around town -
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
She shows her dogs frequently
We will demo the new software in Washington -
show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
he exhibits a great talent -
to show, make visible or apparent
Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?
National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship
The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month
NOUN
- an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence
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something shown to the public
the museum had many exhibits of oriental art
How To Use exhibit In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
- The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
- Yet as a wartime document the exhibition feels fresh and alive. Times, Sunday Times
- Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
- Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
- There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
- At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746. Introductory Note
