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EXHIBITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of exhibiting
Example:
a remarkable exhibition of musicianship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exhibition" is a kind of...):
demonstration; presentation; presentment (a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exhibition"):
production ((law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law)
rodeo (an exhibition of cowboy skills)
Derivation:
exhibit (to show, make visible or apparent)
exhibit (show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
Synonyms:
exhibition; expo; exposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("exhibition" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Domain category:
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exhibition"):
art exhibition (an exhibition of art objects (paintings or statues))
peepshow; raree-show (an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass)
fair (a competitive exhibition of farm products)
Context examples:
I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I invite you to be present at the exhibition.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So he remained on exhibition until spring, when one Tim Keenan, a faro-dealer, arrived in the land.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have merely to observe, that I am not aware that it is any business of theirs, and that I repel that exhibition of feeling with scorn, and with defiance!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He clasped his hands behind his head, threw them aloft, and swung them backwards, and at every movement some fresh expanse of his smooth, white skin became knobbed and gnarled with muscles, whilst a yell of admiration and delight from the crowd greeted each fresh exhibition.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At last the scene was over, and Fanny forced herself to add her praise to the compliments each was giving the other; and when again alone and able to recall the whole, she was inclined to believe their performance would, indeed, have such nature and feeling in it as must ensure their credit, and make it a very suffering exhibition to herself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A stranger could not hear this note, and to such a stranger the growling of White Fang was an exhibition of primordial savagery, nerve-racking and blood-curdling.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was a cold-blooded exhibition of marksmanship.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
