What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Vitrine vs Showcase - What's the difference?

vitrine | showcase | Synonyms |

Showcase is a synonym of vitrine.

Vitrine is a synonym of showcase.


As nouns the difference between vitrine and showcase

is that vitrine is a glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise while showcase is a case for displaying merchandise or valuable items.

As a verb showcase is

to display, demonstrate, show, or present.

vitrine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
  • * 1896 , Edward L. Wilson (ed.), "The Review of the Year Past", Photographic Mosaics , page 82
    • Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.
  • * 1919 , Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative , volume I, page 256
    • The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots'' and, in a ''vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo
  • * 1996 , Leslie Glass, Hanging Time
    • Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth.

    Synonyms

    * (cabinet) showcase, display case

    Related terms

    * vitreous

    External links

    * (Showcase) ----

    showcase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A case for displaying merchandise or valuable items.
  • A setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect.

    • Synonyms

    * (case for displaying) vitrine, display case * (setting for exhibiting in favorable aspect) flagship (especially of a store)

    Verb

    (showcas)
  • To display, demonstrate, show, or present.
  • :I think the demonstration really showcases the strengths of the software.
  • * 2012 August 24, Yoram Hazony, “The God of Independent Minds”, The Wall Street Journal :
    • Today's debates over the place of religion in modern life often showcase the claim that belief in God stifles reason and science.