Exhibit vs Had - What's the difference?
exhibit | had |
To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
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, 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= (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.
(have)
*1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
*:About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton.
(auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
*2011 , Ben Cooper, The Guardian , 15 April:
*:Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.
*1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
*:To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute.
*, II.4:
*:Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
*1849 , , In Memoriam , 24:
*:If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.
As verbs the difference between exhibit and had
is that exhibit is to display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest while had is (have).As a noun exhibit
is an instance of.exhibit
English
Verb
(en verb)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.}}
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.