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Exhibition vs Screening - What's the difference?

exhibition | screening |

As nouns the difference between exhibition and screening

is that exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited while screening is (uncountable) mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

As a verb screening is

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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

    screening

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
  • I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.
  • The process of checking or filtering.
  • The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.
  • The showing of a film
  • The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
  • (in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
  • (soccer) shielding
  • Verb

    (head)