exhibit1 verbexhibit2 noun
exhibitex‧hib‧it1 /ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/ ●●○ AWL verb 
WORD ORIGINexhibit1
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin exhibitus, past participle of exhibere ‘to hold out, show’, from habere ‘to have, hold’VERB TABLE
exhibit
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | exhibit |
| he, she, it | exhibits | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | exhibited |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have exhibited |
| he, she, it | has exhibited | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had exhibited |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will exhibit |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have exhibited |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am exhibiting |
| he, she, it | is exhibiting | |
| you, we, they | are exhibiting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was exhibiting |
| you, we, they | were exhibiting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been exhibiting |
| he, she, it | has been exhibiting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been exhibiting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be exhibiting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been exhibiting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Anyone who exhibits extreme anxiety in the face of potential danger is unlikely to become an effective military leader.
- Some of the patients exhibit aggressive and violent behavior.
- The gallery exhibits mainly contemporary sculpture and photography.
- The gallery will exhibit some of Monet's paintings.
- The prisoner exhibited no emotion when the sentence was read out.
- The sculpture was first exhibited at the Canadian National Exhibition.
- Clearly Artai exhibited at least one mutated characteristic.
- Contrary to systems that could be under-stood by old-fashioned reductionism, these dynamic systems exhibited emergent behavior.
- He exhibited high intelligence, had an exceptional memory, but was unpopular and solitary because he hated games.
- The Orphic cosmogonies exhibit a concern to portray humans as well as the world in which they live.
- We have seen that in capitalist societies, different classes exhibit differences in social characteristics, such as values and patterns of behaviour.
- While so many documentary-makers seem chiefly eager to exhibit their punditry, he appeared as a genuine seeker after knowledge.
- With me she had none of the shyness she had exhibited in Byron's company the evening before.
Longman Language Activatorto show art, paintings, products etc to a lot of people
to show something such as paintings or interesting objects, especially a collection of them, by putting them in a public place so that a lot of people can see them: · She hopes to show her paintings at the Institute of Contemporary Art.· His work-in-progress is currently showing at the Guildhall in Manchester. be shown: · Some of Bresson's best photographs are being shown at the National Portrait Gallery this month.
if a shop, museum etc displays things, it arranges them in a way that makes it possible for people to see them clearly: · The store windows were displaying the latest spring fashions.· Many stalls displayed the work of local artists and craftsmen.· In one room, late 19th and early 20th century paintings are displayed.
to show a special collection of paintings, photographs etc in a public place where people can look at them: · The gallery exhibits mainly contemporary sculpture and photography.· Picasso's paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world.· The sculpture was first exhibited at the Canadian National Exhibition.
if works of art, new products, or interesting objects are on display , they have been put in a public place where people can look at them: · The Supermac Computer was on display at the Umax booth.· As expected, there were dozens of cellular phones on display.· Several famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci are on show at the National Gallery.go on display/show (=start to be shown for the first time): · Schiele's watercolours go on show here for two months, starting August 24.
to show or officially tell people about a new product, plan etc for the first time: · GM's solar-powered car was unveiled at last month's Geneva auto show.· The government has unveiled its plans for the future of Britain's armed forces.
to show your thoughts or feelings to behave in a way that shows people how you feel or what you character is like: · Paul didn't show much interest in the idea.· I just want you to show some respect, just for once.· If you're pleased, you've got a funny way of showing it.show how angry/upset/happy etc you are: · The hostages showed great courage in a very frightening situation.· I was determined not to show how upset I felt.
to behave in a way that shows people how you feel or what your character is like. Display is more formal than show: · I'm displaying my ignorance here, but could you just tell us exactly what your job as a geologist involves?· The previous government displayed a notable lack of enthusiasm for women's rights.· The contestants here today have displayed tremendous skill.
to do something in order to deliberately and clearly show an attitude or feeling: · Brenda wanted to demonstrate her sympathy in a practical way.· The new law was intended to demonstrate the government's concern for the lowest paid workers.
formal to clearly show how you feel: · The prisoner exhibited no emotion when the sentence was read out.· Anyone who exhibits extreme anxiety in the face of potential danger is unlikely to become an effective military leader.
especially written to show a feeling by the expression on your face, especially when you are reacting to something that happens or to what someone has said: · Caitlin watched his face, which registered a mixture of alarm and astonishment.· It was only when I mentioned the money that she registered a flicker of interest.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illnessCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness· The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
· It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.
formal (=show symptoms)· She was displaying symptoms of stress.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· In such cases, the two sections often exhibit markedly different levels of variability.· Children abused or seriously neglected in childhood often exhibit as adults a sociopathic inability to empathize with other people.
NOUN· Two of the daughters, Annie and Rose, were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885.· She became an accomplished pianist and several of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy.· The architect's plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899.
· I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture.· Back home, I took down a catalogue of works by Leslie Hakim-Dowek, one of the artists exhibiting in the show.· Local artists and craftspeople exhibit their work, discuss and demonstrate their skills in the Manor and its beautiful surroundings.
· Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.· It is therefore possible to unwind the program that many times, obtaining a finite syntactic approximation which exhibits the same behaviour.· These modes exhibit a behaviour of ever-increasing frequency as the Cauchy horizon is approached.· Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety.
· Such a reaction is both natural and understandable: the Constitution does exhibit those very characteristics.· It is a political project exhibiting all the characteristics of a centrally controlled socialist economic system.· These are learned from others in the group who already exhibit these characteristics.· To appear round and full was to exhibit the characteristics of prosperity and the patent outcome of regular meals.· They do not exhibit the semantic indeterminacy characteristic of poetic metaphors.· Many women workers exhibit labour market characteristics traditionally associated with vulnerability to unemployment.· Marijuana exhibits characteristics of a depressant as well as a stimulant; however, it is classified as neither.
· We are back again to the idea that quantum systems exhibit an unexpected degree of togetherness.· During work experience students are expected to exhibit a high degree of interpersonal skills in initiating and sustaining working relationships.· We can recognise animals or birds as exhibiting a different degree of consciousness from our own.· As a result the business class as a whole exhibits a high degree of integration and social cohesion ....· The ability of V domain dimerization to exhibit a degree of structural fluidity has previously been noted.
· Many of the squatter settlements exhibit high levels of social organisation and stability rather than marginal characteristics.· In such cases, the two sections often exhibit markedly different levels of variability.
· Six years earlier, the museum had exhibited the same seventy-five pieces, loaned by the trustee and benefactor.· A new home for the museum exhibits that are seldom seen.· The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world.
· They have recently exhibited paintings which they call Cubist paintings.· The dealer had recently exhibited some of his paintings in a mixed show with Picasso, Matisse and Derain.
· Interestingly, both female as well as male patients exhibited a hypocholesterolaemia, a finding not previously reported among other population groups.· The texts show typical maps of the sensory strip and the motor strip, but patients exhibit a lot of variability.· All but one patient exhibited the response while on interferon therapy.· This explains the increased sensitivity to levodopa that some patients exhibit after a period off the drug.· These reactions seem to be independent of dose and a number have occurred in patients previously exhibiting allergic reactions to sulphasalazine.· All these patients exhibited biological stigmata of primary hyperparathyroidism.· Over half of the patients exhibit clinical signs associated with portal hypertension, such as ascites and hepatorenal syndrome.
· Less deliberately structured groupings can exhibit similar patterns of socialisation, too.· Babies born to women who did not abstain from drinking during pregnancy also tend to exhibit abnormal sleep patterns after birth.· These random movements in aggregate demand are of course unpredictable and exhibit no clear pattern.· The model therefore implies that the deviations of output from its natural rate should also be unpredictable and exhibit no pattern.
· Some of the 1-cyclopropyl-quinolone-carboxylic acid derivatives exhibited particularly interesting microbiological properties.· However, sentences also exhibit meaning properties and relations that words and phrases lack.· The Wein-berg-Salam theory exhibits a property known as spontaneous symmetry breaking.
· The fish within a typical marine community tank fish collection are also likely to exhibit a wide range of feeding modes.· Such space is needed to store and exhibit a range of national treasures.
· Moreover, many a traditionalist continued working and exhibiting at Salon and Academy, without ever being published or becoming popular.
· Over half of the patients exhibit clinical signs associated with portal hypertension, such as ascites and hepatorenal syndrome.· Sometime after her acceptance, she exhibited signs of her former diabolical symptoms.
· Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.· Betty Levin had been hospitalized for two weeks when her husband, Alvin, began exhibiting symptoms.· We now exhibit the same symptoms of the same disease, the loss of myth.· But when that remedy was given to a sick person exhibiting those same symptoms, it helped cure the person.
· Both criminal law and contract exhibit a tendency to convert such presumptions into irrebuttable rules of law.· They thus exhibit a strong tendency to drag their feet as doomsday draws nearer.· At full whack, I would guess that the Rivera exhibits some very unsociable tendencies indeed.· Law students tend to become more concerned with matters of proper procedure and exhibit an increased tendency to reason by analogy.· This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies.
· Although the rules which provide its definition are surprisingly simple, the set itself exhibits an endless variety of highly elaborate structure.
· Should it be exhibiting a work which, in all probability, was obtained from its legal owner by fraudulent means?· In 1856 the Bissons were reproducing and exhibiting photographs of contemporary works of art.· Fisher is very much the full-time artist and was recently invited to exhibit a work at the U. S. Senate.· The degree show gives them a chance to exhibit their work publicly in central London.· All around him his friends and contemporaries were exhibiting and selling their work, some of them under contract.· Richard Parker last exhibited his work in public alongside that of Ken Cozens back in 1961.· Local artists and craftspeople exhibit their work, discuss and demonstrate their skills in the Manor and its beautiful surroundings.
WORD FAMILYnounexhibitionexhibitorexhibitverbexhibit
1[intransitive, transitive] to show something in a public place so that people can go to see it SYN show: Her paintings have been exhibited all over the world.2[transitive] formal to clearly show a particular quality, emotion, or ability SYN displayexhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illnessexhibit1 verbexhibit2 noun
exhibitexhibit2 ●●○ AWL noun [countable] 1something, for example a painting, that is put in a public place so that people can go to see it: The exhibits date from the 17th century.2an object that is shown in court to prove whether someone is guilty or not: Exhibit A is the hammer found next to the victim.3 American English an exhibition: a big exhibit in Milan