display
See also: Display
English
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Etymology
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From Middle English displayen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman despleier, from Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). See also deploy.
Pronunciation
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
- A piece of work to be presented visually.
- Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
- (travel, aviation, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".
Translations
spectacle
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electronic screen
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See also
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (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, […].
- (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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 293:
- Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
- (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (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 spread out
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to show conspicuously
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Further reading
- “display”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “display”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “display”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Pronunciation
Noun
display f or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
- display (screen)
Portuguese
Etymology
Noun
display m (plural s)
- display (electronic screen)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
display m (plural displays)
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