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display en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A show or spectacle.
The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
The festival has been popular with locals since it began in 2003. This year, in addition to the skies over the Siying Archway Bridge (西瀛虹橋) near the main town of Makung (馬公市), there will be fireworks displays over the Penghu Sea-Crossing Bridge (跨海大橋) in Paisha Township (白沙鄉) and the Kuanri Recreational Area (觀日遊憩區) in Huhsi Township (湖西鄉).
2008 May 9, Ian Bartholomew, “Get a bang out of Penghu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2008, Features, page 15:
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(countable, uncountable) A piece of work to be presented visually.
Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
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(countable, uncountable) A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
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(countable, uncountable) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
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(countable, uncountable) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
Forms
Descendants
диспле́й
Relateds
VDU · graphics · characters · cursor · CRT · screen · monitor · digits
Synonyms
cardboard display
Translations (116)
bg монитор (electronic screen) · ru шо́у (spectacle) · ms paparan (electronic screen) · ko 디스플레이 (electronic screen) · hu kijelző (electronic screen) · la ostentus (spectacle) · cs představení (spectacle) · uz displey (electronic screen) · hy էկրան (electronic screen) · el παράσταση (spectacle) · grc ἐπίδειξις (spectacle) · sv skärm (electronic screen) · ru экра́н (electronic screen) · id layar (electronic screen) · ro spectacol (spectacle) · ml ഡിസ്പ്ലേ (electronic screen) · es expositor (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · gl expositor (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · it saggio (spectacle) · ro expoziție (spectacle) · de Display (electronic screen) · hu kiállítóállvány (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · cmn 顯示器 /显示器 (electronic screen) · ar عَرْض (spectacle) · et kuvar (electronic screen) · sv bildskärm (electronic screen) · de Anzeige (electronic screen) · pt mostra (spectacle) · vi biểu hiện (spectacle) · fr spectacle (spectacle) · hy մոնիտոր (electronic screen) · he צג (electronic screen) · sh zaslon (electronic screen) · sv display (electronic screen) · it schermo (electronic screen) · ru представле́ние (spectacle) · hu megjelenítő (electronic screen) · ru демонстра́ция (spectacle) · fi näky (spectacle) · it espositorio (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · cs přehlídka (spectacle) · fi monitori (electronic screen) · hu képernyő (electronic screen) · hy դիսփլեյ (electronic screen) · ky дисплей (electronic screen) · ru диспле́й (electronic screen) · uk диспле́й (electronic screen) · de Display (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · sv uppvisning (spectacle) · tr ekran (electronic screen) · ru монито́р (electronic screen) · bg излагане (spectacle) · be дысплэ́й (electronic screen) · ja ディスプレイ (electronic screen) · ca monitor (electronic screen) · it presentatoio (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · hu bemutatóállvány (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · ota نمایش (spectacle) · fi näytelmä (spectacle) · hu előadás (spectacle) · ar إِظْهَار (spectacle) · th จอภาพ (electronic screen) · fr représentation (spectacle) · nl beeldscherm (electronic screen) · de Monitor (electronic screen) · cs displej (electronic screen) · fr moniteur (electronic screen) · fr écran (electronic screen) · el οθόνη (electronic screen) · ca espectacle (spectacle) · ar شَاشَة (electronic screen) · ro ecran (electronic screen) · he מסך (electronic screen) · es demuestra (spectacle) · es caja expositora (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · hy ցուցասարք (electronic screen) · fi näytös (spectacle) · ru зре́лище (spectacle) · pt expositor (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · pl wyświetlacz (electronic screen) · nl verkoopstandaard (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · pt ecrã (electronic screen) · eo vidigilo (electronic screen) · eo ekrano (electronic screen) · mi whakakitenga (spectacle) · kk дисплей (electronic screen) · pt exposição (spectacle) · tr dürbün (spectacle) · it video (electronic screen) · hu mutatvány (spectacle) · de Vorführung (spectacle) · fr présentoir (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · de Vorstellung (spectacle) · hu papírállvány (a device for visual presentation for sales promotion) · nl spektakel (spectacle) · de Bildschirm (electronic screen) · it rappresentazione (spectacle) · ga taispeántas (spectacle) · sk displej (electronic screen) · pt tela (electronic screen) · be дыспле́й (electronic screen) · ro reprezentație (spectacle) · hu bemutató (spectacle) · ro monitor (electronic screen) · cs show (spectacle) · nl display (electronic screen) · ru диспле́й (electronic screen) · fi esitys (spectacle) · pt display (electronic screen) · gd taisbeanadh (spectacle) · ru пока́з (spectacle) · ro display (electronic screen) · sv monitor (electronic screen) · uk по́каз (spectacle) · bg показ (spectacle) · fi näyttö (electronic screen)
display en · VERB
Pronunciation
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.
Meanings
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(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
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,[…].
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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(intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]
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:
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To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.
1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, 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:
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(dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
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(obsolete) To discover; to descry.
And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
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(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
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, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
Deriveds
undisplayed (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · fireworks display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · courtship display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display model (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · ferroelectric liquid-crystal display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · misdisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · liquid crystal display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · displayer (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display window (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · nondisplayed (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display list (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · microdisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · refreshable display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · redisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · undisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · organic electroluminescent display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · heads-up display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display case (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · starburst display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · visual display unit (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · vacuum fluorescent display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · flip-disk display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · displayability (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · flip-disc display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · plasma display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · predisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · semi-display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · volumetric display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · pay-and-display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · on display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · pay and display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · public display of affection (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display tearing (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · air display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · flip-dot display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · DISP (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · diversionary display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display cabinet (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · displayable (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · surface-conduction electron-emitter display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · holodisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · head-up display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · liquid-crystal display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · distraction display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · split-flap display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · affect display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · codisplay (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · display kerchief (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · shoulder display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · field emission display (titles derived from display (noun and verb)) · flap display (titles derived from display (noun and verb))
Relateds
flaunt · brandish · show off
Synonyms
splay
Translations (88)
la praestō (to show conspicuously) · mn дэлгэх (to spread out) · cs vyložit (to show conspicuously) · hy ցույց տալ (to show conspicuously) · de darstellen (to show conspicuously) · uga 𐎁𐎙𐎊 (to show conspicuously) · uk відобража́ти (to show conspicuously) · ru отобража́ть (to show conspicuously) · de ausstrecken (to spread out) · id menampilkan (to show conspicuously) · kk көрсету (to show conspicuously) · hu kinyújt (to spread out) · es exteriorizar (to show conspicuously) · it mostrare (to show conspicuously) · enm displayen (to spread out) · vi trưng bày (to show conspicuously) · bg показвам (to show conspicuously) · mi tiori (to show conspicuously) · ru вы́ставить (to spread out) · fr afficher (to show conspicuously) · ml പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക (to show conspicuously) · nl tonen (to show conspicuously) · kk паш ету (to show conspicuously) · be паказа́ць (to show conspicuously) · fi näyttää (to show conspicuously) · it esibire (to show conspicuously) · ru показа́ть (to show conspicuously) · sh prikazivati (to show conspicuously) · grc ἐπιδείκνυμι (to show conspicuously) · hu megmutat (to show conspicuously) · la exhibeō (to show conspicuously) · pt mostrar (to show conspicuously) · uk показа́ти (to show conspicuously) · sk zobraziť (to show conspicuously) · es exponer (to show conspicuously) · grc φαίνω (to spread out) · fi esittää (to show conspicuously) · cs ukázat (to show conspicuously) · mi whakamātakitaki (to show conspicuously) · hu kiterít (to spread out) · uk ви́ставити (to spread out) · fr montrer (to show conspicuously) · it spiegare (to spread out) · ms mempertunjukkan (to show conspicuously) · mi whakakite (to show conspicuously) · enm displayen (to show conspicuously) · el παρουσιάζω (to show conspicuously) · uk відобрази́ти (to show conspicuously) · it visualizzare (to show conspicuously) · lt rodyti (to show conspicuously) · uk пока́зувати (to show conspicuously) · gl amosar (to show conspicuously) · es mostrar (to show conspicuously) · es desplegar (to spread out) · ru пока́зывать (to show conspicuously) · be пака́зваць (to show conspicuously) · it presentare (to show conspicuously) · enm splayen (to spread out) · fr étaler (to spread out) · id menayangkan (to show conspicuously) · ru выставля́ть (to spread out) · az nümayiş etdirmək (to show conspicuously) · hu kiterjeszt (to spread out) · ms mempamerkan (to show conspicuously) · mi tītohu (to show conspicuously) · eo elmontri (to show conspicuously) · de zeigen (to show conspicuously) · got 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to show conspicuously) · fr présenter (to show conspicuously) · uk виставля́ти (to spread out) · de präsentieren (to show conspicuously) · cs vyvěsit (to show conspicuously) · fi levittää (to spread out) · pt exibir (to show conspicuously) · fr étaler (to show conspicuously) · cs vystavit (to show conspicuously) · sw onyesha (to show conspicuously) · hu kimutat (to show conspicuously) · ms mempertontonkan (to show conspicuously) · pt apresentar (to show conspicuously) · hu elárul (to show conspicuously) · cs zobrazit (to show conspicuously) · got 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (to show conspicuously) · pl wyświetlać (to show conspicuously) · ru отобрази́ть (to show conspicuously) · ca exhibir (to show conspicuously) · cs předvést (to show conspicuously) · el προβάλλω (to show conspicuously)