different between evolve vs exhibit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• Hyphenation: e?volve

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. To move in regular procession through a system.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

   • 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

     The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

2. (intransitive) To change; transform.

3. To come into being; develop.
   • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

     You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
4. (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:

     There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

5. (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

6. (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

Latin

Etymology

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]

Verb

?volve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?

Portuguese

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver

English

Etymology

From Latin exhibitus, perfect passive participle of exhibe? (“I hold forth, present, show, display”), from ex (“out of, from”) + habe? (“I have, hold”); see habit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?b?t/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?b?t/, /??-/
• Rhymes: -?b?t
• Hyphenation: ex?hib?it

Verb

exhibit (third-person singular simple present exhibits, present participle exhibiting, simple past and past participle exhibited)

1. (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
2. (transitive) To demonstrate.
3. (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.

4. (intransitive) To put on a public display.

5. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.

Synonyms

• (display or show (something) for others to see): display, show, show off
• (demonstrate): demonstrate, show
• (present for inspection):

Related terms

• exhibition
• exhibitionist
• exhibitor
• Exhibit A
• inhibit
• prohibit

Translations

Noun

exhibit (plural exhibits)

1. An instance of exhibiting.
2. That which is exhibited.
3. A public showing; an exhibition.

   The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.

4. (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

   Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.

Synonyms

• (instance of exhibiting): showing
• (public showing): exhibition, exposition, show

Translations

Further reading

• exhibit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhibit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??.zi?bit/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e?.zi?bit/
• Rhymes: -it

Verb

exhibit m (feminine exhibida, masculine plural exhibits, feminine plural exhibides)

1. past participle of exhibir