display
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[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)
- A show or spectacle.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
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spectacle
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electronic screen
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[edit] Verb
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.
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- 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
[edit] Dutch
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- IPA: /ˈdɪspleɪ/
[edit] Noun
display m. and n.
