display
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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.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, 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, 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, […].
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, The Mirror and the Lamp:
- (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?)
- (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- Chapman
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
- Chapman
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]
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Noun[edit]
display f, n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
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