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display
- /dɪsˈpleɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
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.
noun 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.
- A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
- An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
verb displays · displaying · displayed
- To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest. 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.
- 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 […]
- To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy. The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.
- To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- To discover; to descry. And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
- 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 [...].
