display

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English[edit]

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Cardboard displays in a supermarket (sense 3)

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: dĭsplāʹ, IPA(key): /dɪsˈpleɪ/, /ˈdɪspleɪ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Hyphenation: dis‧play

Noun[edit]

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

  1. A show or spectacle.
    The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
  2. A piece of work to be presented visually.
    Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
  3. A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
    Synonym: cardboard display
  4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
  5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

Descendants[edit]

  • Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
    • Kazakh: дисплей (displei)

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

Verb[edit]

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

  1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
    Troponyms: brandish, flaunt, show off
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →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.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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, [].
  2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
  3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
    • 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:
      The Englishmen [] display their ranks and [] press hard upon their enemies.
  4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
  6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
    Synonym: splay

Translations[edit]

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Derived terms[edit]

titles derived from display (noun and verb)

Further reading[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dɪsˈpleː/, /ˈdɪs.pleː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: dis‧play
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun[edit]

display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)

  1. display (screen)

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Noun[edit]

display m (plural displays)

  1. display (electronic screen)
    Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English display.

Noun[edit]

display n (plural display-uri)

  1. display

Declension[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /disˈplei/ [d̪isˈplei̯]
  • Rhymes: -ei

Noun[edit]

display m (plural displays)

  1. display

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.