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What is the difference between exhibit and display?

exhibit | display |

Display is a synonym of exhibit.



In transitive terms the difference between exhibit and display

is that exhibit is to demonstrate while display is to show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

In intransitive terms the difference between exhibit and display

is that exhibit is to put on a public display while display is to make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

exhibit

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
  • To demonstrate.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}
  • (legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
  • To put on a public display.
  • (medicine) To administer as a remedy.

    • Synonyms

    * display, show, show off * (demonstrate) demonstrate, show * (present for inspection)

    Related terms

    * exhibition * exhibitionist * exhibitor * inhibit * prohibit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of .
  • That which is .
  • A public showing; an exhibition.
    • The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
  • (legal) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.
    • Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.

    Synonyms

    * (instance of exhibiting) showing * (public showing) exhibition, exposition, show

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    display

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A show or spectacle.
  • (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

    • See also

    * characters * CRT * cursor * digits * graphics * monitor * screen * VDU

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
    • The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
  • To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
    • (Farrow)
  • (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  • (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
  • * Chapman
    • And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

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