(exhibits, exhibiting, exhibited)
1.
If someone or something shows a particular quality, feeling, or type of behaviour, you can say that they exhibit it. (FORMAL)
He has exhibited symptoms of anxiety and overwhelming worry...
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When a painting, sculpture, or object of interest is exhibited, it is put in a public place such as a museum or art gallery so that people can come to look at it. You can also say that animals are exhibited in a zoo.
His work was exhibited in the best galleries in America, Europe and Asia.
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• exhibition
Five large pieces of the wall are currently on exhibition in London.
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3.
When artists exhibit, they show their work in public.
By 1936 she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy.
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4.
An exhibit is a painting, sculpture, or object of interest that is displayed to the public in a museum or art gallery.
Shona showed me round the exhibits.
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An
exhibit is a public display of paintings, sculpture, or objects of interest, for example in a museum or art gallery. (
AM; in BRIT, use exhibition
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...an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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An exhibit is an object that a lawyer shows in court as evidence in a legal case.
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