display

See also: Display

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsplāʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Hyphenation: dis‧play

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.
3. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

Translations

spectacle

• Bulgarian: излагане (bg) n ‎(izlagane), показ (bg) m ‎(pokaz)
• Catalan: espectacle (ca) m
• Dutch: spektakel (nl) n
• French: représentation (fr) f, spectacle (fr) m
• German: Vorführung (de) f
• Greek: παράσταση (el) ‎(parástasi)
• Irish: taispeántas m

• Italian: rappresentazione (it) f, saggio (it) m
• Portuguese: exposição (pt) f, mostra (pt) f
• Russian: пока́з (ru) m ‎(pokáz), шо́у (ru) n ‎(šóu), представле́ние (ru) n ‎(predstavlénije), зре́лище (ru) n ‎(zrélišče), демонстра́ция (ru) f ‎(demonstrácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh m
• Spanish: espectáculo (es) m, exposición (es) m
• Swedish: uppvisning c
• Vietnamese: biểu hiện (vi)

electronic screen

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ցուցասարք ‎(cʿucʿasarkʿ), դիսփլեյ ‎(dispʿley), էկրան (hy) ‎(ēkran), մոնիտոր ‎(monitor)
• Bulgarian: монитор m ‎(monitor)
• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: display (nl) n, beeldscherm (nl) n
• Estonian: kuvar (et)
• Finnish: näyttö (fi), monitori (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Display (de) n, Monitor (de) m, Bildschirm (de), Anzeige (de) f

• Greek: οθόνη (el) f ‎(othóni) (othony)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: schermo (it) m, video (it) m
• Japanese: ディスプレイ (ja) ‎(disupurei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: paparan
• Portuguese: display (pt) m, ecrã (pt) m (Portugal), tela (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: диспле́й (ru) m ‎(displéj), диспле́й (ru) m ‎(displɛ́j), монито́р (ru) m ‎(monitór), экра́н (ru) m ‎(ekrán)
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: bildskärm (sv) c, monitor (sv) c, display (sv)

See also

• characters
• CRT
• cursor
• digits
• graphics
• monitor
• screen
• VDU

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.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in 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?)

4. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

5. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
6. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
   • Chapman

     And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

Translations

to spread out

• French: étaler (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can

• Mongolian: дэлгэх (mn) ‎(delgeh)
• Russian: выставля́ть (ru) impf ‎(vystavljátʹ), вы́ставить (ru) pf ‎(výstavitʹ)

to show conspicuously

• Armenian: ցույց տալ ‎(cʿuycʿ tal)
• Belarusian: пака́зваць impf ‎(pakázvacʹ), паказа́ць (be) pf ‎(pakazácʹ)
• Catalan: exhibir (ca)
• Dutch: tonen (nl)
• Esperanto: elmontri
• French: afficher (fr), étaler (fr), montrer (fr), présenter (fr)
• German: anzeigen (de)
• Greek: παρουσιάζω (el) ‎(parousiázo), προβάλλω (el) ‎(provállo)
• Italian: mostrare (it), presentare (it)
• Maori: tiori
• Portuguese: exibir (pt), mostrar (pt), apresentar (pt)

• Russian: отобража́ть (ru) impf ‎(otobražátʹ), отобрази́ть (ru) pf ‎(otobrazítʹ), пока́зывать (ru) impf ‎(pokázyvatʹ), показа́ть (ru) pf ‎(pokazátʹ)
• Slovak: zobraziť
• Spanish: exhibir (es), mostrar (es), presentar (es)
• Ukrainian: пока́зувати (uk) impf ‎(pokázuvaty), показа́ти pf ‎(pokazáty)
• Vietnamese: trưng bày (vi)

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.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} показвам (bg) ‎(pokazvam)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} 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^(key): /ˈdɪspleː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dis‧play

Etymology

Borrowing from English display

Noun

display f, n ‎(plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)

1. display (2)

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Portuguese

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display (electronic screen)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:display.

Synonyms

• ecrã, tela

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Spanish

Noun

display m ‎(plural displays)

1. display