display
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
printing
publishing
sciences
war
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.
Inflected forms:
form: displays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: displays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: displaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: displayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: displayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A show or spectacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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).
gloss: A piece of work to be presented visually.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
gloss: A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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,[…].
gloss: To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]
gloss: To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
pos: verb
examples: The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.
gloss: To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To discover; to descry.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
gloss: To spread out, to unfurl.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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 [...].
Related words: characters
CRT
cursor
digits
graphics
monitor
screen
VDU
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