Exhibit vs Convention - What's the difference?
exhibit | convention |
To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
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To demonstrate.
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, title= (legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
To put on a public display.
(medicine) To administer as a remedy.
An instance of .
That which is .
A public showing; an exhibition.
(legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
A meeting or gathering.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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As nouns the difference between exhibit and convention
is that exhibit is an instance of while convention is a meeting or gathering.As a verb exhibit
is to display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.exhibit
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Verb
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Synonyms
* display, show, show off * (demonstrate) demonstrate, show * (present for inspection)Noun
(en noun)- The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
- Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.
Synonyms
* (instance of exhibiting) showing * (public showing) exhibition, exposition, showExternal links
* * ----convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.