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Zoo vs Exhibition - What's the difference?

zoo | exhibition |

As nouns the difference between zoo and exhibition

is that zoo is zoo while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

zoo

English

(wikipedia zoo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A park where live animals are exhibited.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • (label) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
  • Derived terms

    * like feeding time at the zoo * morning zoo * particle zoo * petting zoo * zoo format

    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