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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exhibit \Ex*hib"it\, noun
1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
2. (Law) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exhibit \Ex*hib"it\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Exhibited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exhibiting}.] [L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See {Habit}.]
1. To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.
Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. --Pope.
2. (Law) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.
He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. --Clarendon.
3. (Med.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.
{To exhibit a foundation or prize}, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates.
{To exibit an essay}, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exhibit
noun
1: an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence
2: something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art" [syn: {display}, {showing}]
verb
1: show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill; "he exhibits a great talent"
2: to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" [syn: {expose}, {display}]
3: show or demonstrate something to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: {show}, {demo}, {present}, {demonstrate}]
4: walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around town" [syn: {parade}, {march}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "exhibit": advertise, affect, air, approve, argue, attest, basis for belief, benefit, bespeak, betoken, betray, bill, blazon forth, body of evidence, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, chain of evidence, clue, connote, cosmorama, cyclorama, dangle, data, datum, debut, demonstrate, demonstration, denote, develop, diorama, disclose, display, disport, divulge, documentation, dramatize, emblazon, embody, enact, enactment, entertainment, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibition, expose, expose to view, exposition, exposure, express, fact, facts, fair, farewell performance, flash, flaunt, flesh show, flourish, furnish evidence, georama, give indication of, give sign, give token, go to show, grounds, grounds for belief, highlight, hold up, illuminate, illustrate, imply, incarnate, indicate, indication, involve, item of evidence, light show, make clear, make plain, manifest, manifestation, mark, material grounds, materialize, mean, muniments, mute witness, myriorama, offer, opening, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, perform, performance, phantasmagoria, piece of evidence, point to, pomp, premiere, premises, present, presentation, presentment, proclaim, produce, production, projection, proof, psychedelic show, put forth, put forward, reason to believe, relevant fact, represent, representation, retrospective, reveal, roll out, set forth, shifting scene, show, show forth, show off, show signs of, showing, sight, sign, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spectacle, sport, spotlight, stage presentation, stage show, suggest, swan song, symptom, symptomatize, tableau, tableau vivant, tell, tend to show, theatrical performance, token, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, tryout, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vaunt, vernissage, wave
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