display

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] English

Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French despleier, desploier, from Medieval Latin displicare (to unfold, display), from Latin dis- (apart) + plicare (to fold).

[edit] Noun

display (plural displays)

  1. A show or spectacle.
  2. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Verb

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

  1. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
      The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
  2. (transitive): To show conspicuously.

[edit] Translations

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

[edit] External links


[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdɪspleɪ/

[edit] Noun

display m. and n.

  1. display
Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Views
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox
In other languages