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Exhibition vs Assortment - What's the difference?

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Exhibition is a related term of assortment.


As nouns the difference between exhibition and assortment

is that exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited while assortment is a collection of varying but related items.

exhibition

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
  • He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself

    assortment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of varying but related items.
  • This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

    Synonyms

    * diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also