display

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsplā', IPA: /dɪsˈpleɪ/, X-SAMPA: /dIs"pleI/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology

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

Noun

display (plural displays)

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

Translations

spectacle

• Bulgarian: излагане (bg) (izlagane) n, показ (bg) (pokaz) m
• Catalan: espectacle (ca) m
• French: représentation (fr) f, spectacle (fr) m
• German: Vorführung (de) f
• Greek: παράσταση (el) (parástasi)
• Irish: taispeántas (ga) m
• Italian: rappresentazione (it) f, saggio (it) m

• Russian: показ (ru) (pokáz) m, шоу (ru) (šóu) n, представление (ru) (predstavlénije) n, зрелище (ru) (zrélišče) n, демонстрация (ru) (demonstrácija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh (gd) m
• Spanish: espectáculo (es) m
• Vietnamese: biểu hiện (vi)

electronic screen

• Bulgarian: монитор (bg) (monitor) m
• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯示器 (cmn), 显示器 (cmn) (xiǎnshìqì)

• Estonian: kuvar (et)
• Finnish: näyttö (fi), monitori (fi)
• German: Display (de) n, Monitor (de) m, Bildschirm (de), Anzeige (de) f

• Greek: οθόνη (el) (othóni) f (othony)
• Italian: schermo (it) m, video (it) m
• Japanese: ディスプレイ (ja) (disupurei)
• Malay: paparan (ms)
• Portuguese: monitor (pt) m
• Russian: дисплей (ru) (displéj, displɛ́j) m, монитор (ru) (monitór) m, экран (ru) (ekrán) m
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: bildskärm (sv) c, monitor (sv) c

Related terms

• characters
• cursor
• digits
• graphics

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; 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, […].

3. (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

to spread out

• French: étaler (fr)
• Russian: выставлять (ru) (vystavljátʹ) impf., выставить (ru) (výstavitʹ) pf.

to show conspicuously

• Catalan: exhibir (ca)
• French: afficher (fr), étaler (fr)
• German: anzeigen (de)
• Greek: παρουσιάζω (el) (parousiázo), προβάλλω (el) (provállo)
• Russian: отображать (ru) (otobražátʹ) impf., отобразить (ru) (otobrazítʹ) pf., показывать (ru) (pokázyvatʹ) impf., показать (ru) (pokazátʹ) pf.

• Slovak: zobraziť (sk)
• Spanish: exhibir (es)
• Vietnamese: trưng bày (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: показвам
• Welsh: arddangos (cy)

External links

• 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

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɪspleɪ/

Noun

display f, n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje)

1. display