display

See also: Display

English

Cardboard displays in a supermarkt (sense 3)

Etymology

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Hyphenation: dis‧play

Noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

1. A show or spectacle.

   The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

2. A piece of work to be presented visually.

   Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.

3. A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.

   Synonym: cardboard display

4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

Descendants

• → Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
  • → Kazakh: дисплей (dïspley)

Translations

spectacle

• Arabic: إِظْهَار‎ m (ʾiẓhār), عَرْض‎ (ar) m (ʿarḍ)
• Bulgarian: излагане (bg) n (izlagane), показ (bg) m (pokaz)
• Catalan: espectacle (ca) m
• Dutch: spektakel (nl) n
• Finnish: esitys (fi), näytelmä (fi), näytös (fi), näky (fi)
• French: représentation (fr) f, spectacle (fr) m
• German: Vorführung (de) f, Vorstellung (de) f
• Greek: παράσταση (el) (parástasi)

  Ancient: ἐπίδειξις f (epídeixis)

• Irish: taispeántas m

• Italian: rappresentazione (it) f, saggio (it) m
• Latin: ostentus m
• Maori: whakakitenga
• Portuguese: exposição (pt) f, mostra (pt) f
• Romanian: spectacol (ro) f, expoziție (ro) f, reprezentație (ro) 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 (sv) c
• Turkish: dürbün (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́каз m (pókaz)
• Vietnamese: biểu hiện (vi)

electronic screen

• Arabic: شَاشَة‎ f (šāša)
• Armenian: ցուցասարք (hy) (cʿucʿasarkʿ), դիսփլեյ (hy) (dispʿley), էկրան (hy) (ēkran), մոնիտոր (hy) (monitor)
• Belarusian: дыспле́й m (dyspljéj), дысплэ́й m (dyspléj)
• Bulgarian: монитор m (monitor)
• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: displej (cs) m
• Dutch: display (nl) n, beeldscherm (nl) n
• Estonian: kuvar (et)
• Finnish: näyttö (fi), monitori (fi)
• French: moniteur (fr) m, écran (fr) m
• German: Display (de) n, Monitor (de) m, Bildschirm (de), Anzeige (de) f
• Greek: οθόνη (el) f (othóni) (othony)
• Hebrew: צג‎ (he) m (tsag), מסך‎ (he) m (masákh)
• Hungarian: kijelző (hu)
• Indonesian: layar (id)
• Italian: schermo (it) m, video (it) m

• Japanese: ディスプレイ (ja) (disupurei)
• Kazakh: дисплей (dïspley)
• Korean: 디스플레이 (diseupeullei)
• Kyrgyz: дисплей (ky) (displey)
• Malay: paparan
• Polish: wyświetlacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: display (pt) m, ecrã (pt) m (Portugal), tela (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: display (ro) n, ecran (ro) n, monitor (ro) n
• Russian: диспле́й (ru) m (displéj), диспле́й (ru) m (displɛ́j), монито́р (ru) m (monitór), экра́н (ru) m (ekrán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zaslon (sh) m

• Slovak: displej (sk) m
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: bildskärm (sv) c, monitor (sv) c, display (sv)
• Thai: จอภาพ (jɔɔ-pâap)
• Turkish: ekran (tr)
• Ukrainian: диспле́й m (dyspléj)
• Uzbek: displey (uz)

a device for visual presentation for sales promotion

• Dutch: verkoopstandaard m
• French: présentoir (fr) m
• Galician: expositor m
• German: Display (de) n

• Italian: espositore m
• Portuguese: expositor (pt) m
• Spanish: expositor m, caja expositora f, góndola (es) f

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. (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, […].

2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], page 293:

     Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]

3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
   • 1610, William Camden, Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, OCLC 1166778000:

     The Englishmen […] display their ranks and […] press hard upon their enemies.

4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

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

6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

   Synonym: splay

   • 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 [...].

Translations

to show conspicuously

• Armenian: ցույց տալ (hy) (cʿuycʿ tal)
• Belarusian: пака́зваць impf (pakázvacʹ), паказа́ць (be) pf (pakazácʹ)
• Bulgarian: показвам (bg) (pokazvam)
• Catalan: exhibir (ca)
• Dutch: tonen (nl)
• Esperanto: elmontri
• Finnish: esittää (fi), näyttää (fi)
• French: afficher (fr), étaler (fr), montrer (fr), présenter (fr)
• Galician: amosar (gl)
• German: zeigen (de), darstellen (de), präsentieren (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan), 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fauramēljan)
• Greek: παρουσιάζω (el) (parousiázo), προβάλλω (el) (provállo)

  Ancient: ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi)

• Indonesian: menampilkan (id), menayangkan (id)

• Italian: mostrare (it), presentare (it), esibire (it), visualizzare (it)
• Latin: exhibeō (la), praestō
• Maori: tiori, whakamātakitaki, whakakite, tītohu
• Polish: wyświetlać (pl)
• Portuguese: exibir (pt), mostrar (pt), apresentar (pt)
• Russian: отобража́ть (ru) impf (otobražátʹ), отобрази́ть (ru) pf (otobrazítʹ), пока́зывать (ru) impf (pokázyvatʹ), показа́ть (ru) pf (pokazátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: prikazivati (sh) impf
• Slovak: zobraziť
• Spanish: exhibir (es), mostrar (es), presentar (es)
• Swahili: onyesha
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎙𐎊 (bġy)
• Ukrainian: пока́зувати (uk) impf (pokázuvaty), показа́ти pf (pokazáty), відобража́ти impf (vidobražáty), відобрази́ти pf (vidobrazýty)
• Vietnamese: trưng bày (vi)

to spread out

• Finnish: levittää (fi)
• French: étaler (fr)
• German: ausstrecken (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: φαίνω (phaínō)

• Italian: spiegare (it)
• Mongolian: дэлгэх (mn) (delgekh)
• Russian: выставля́ть (ru) impf (vystavljátʹ), вы́ставить (ru) pf (výstavitʹ)
• Ukrainian: виставля́ти impf (vystavljáty), ви́ставити pf (výstavyty)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} arddangos (cy)

Further reading

• “display” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• display at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleː/, /ˈdɪs.pleː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dis‧play
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)

1. display (screen)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /d͡ʒisˈplej/, [d͡ʒisˈpleɪ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Brazil including São Paulo) /d͡ʒisˈplej/, [d͡ʒisˈpleɪ̯]
  • IPA^(key): (Rio) /d͡ʒiʃˈplej/, [d͡ʒiʃˈpleɪ̯]

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display (electronic screen)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.

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Romanian

Etymology

From English display.

Noun

display n (plural display-uri)

1. display

Declension

Declension of display

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) display	displayul	(niște) display-uri	display-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) display	displayului	(unor) display-uri	display-urilor
vocative	displayule		display-urilor

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Spanish

Etymology

From English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /disˈplei/, [d̪isˈplei̯]

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display