display
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, from Old French despleier, desploier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”).
Noun[edit]
display (plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
Translations[edit]
spectacle
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electronic screen
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Verb[edit]
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]:
- (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
to spread out
to show conspicuously
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External links[edit]
- display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- display in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ˈdɪspleɪ/
Noun[edit]
display f, n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje)