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say it: ig-ZIB-it
exhibit is a verb and noun meaning "show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill". It carries 6 recorded senses.
show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill
“he exhibits a great talent”
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”
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
“She shows her dogs frequently”
“We will demo the new software in Washington”
an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence
something shown to the public
“the museum had many exhibits of oriental art”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for exhibit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.