exhibit

verb

• 1publicly display (a work of art or item of interest) in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair:only one sculpture was exhibited in the artist’s lifetime
• [no object] (of an artist) display one’s work to the public in an art gallery or museum:she was invited to exhibit at several French museums
• publicly display the work of (an artist) in an art gallery or museum:no foreign painters were exhibited

• 2manifest clearly (a quality or a type of behaviour):he could exhibit a saintlike submissiveness
• show as a sign or symptom:patients with alcoholic liver disease exhibit many biochemical abnormalities

noun

• an object or collection of objects on public display in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair:the museum is rich in exhibits
• North American an exhibition: people flocked to the exhibit in record-breaking numbers
• Law a document or other object produced in a court as evidence: many exhibits, including the cockpit voice recordings, will be produced in court