display
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
display
- 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".
- French: représentation, spectacle
- German: Vorführung
- Italian: rappresentazione, saggio
- Portuguese: exposição, mostra
- Russian: пока́з
- Spanish: espectáculo, exposición
- French: moniteur, écran
- German: Display, Monitor, Bildschirm, Anzeige
- Italian: schermo, video
- Portuguese: display, ecrã (Portugal), tela (Brazil)
- Russian: диспле́й
- Spanish: monitor
display (displays, present participle displaying; past and past participle displayed)
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- (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: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 2, scene 4], 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.
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- Synonyms: 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 [...].
- French: étaler
- Russian: выставля́ть
- French: afficher, étaler, montrer, présenter
- German: anzeigen
- Italian: mostrare, presentare
- Portuguese: exibir, mostrar, apresentar
- Russian: отобража́ть
- Spanish: exhibir, mostrar, presentar
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