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English

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Cardboard displays in a supermarket (sense 3)

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

  1. A show or spectacle.
    The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
    • 2008 May 9, Ian Bartholomew, “Get a bang out of Penghu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2008, Features, page 15:
      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).
  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

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

Translations

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Verb

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 B 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: 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
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      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 .

Translations

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. display (screen)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

display m (plural displays)

  1. display (electronic screen)
    Synonyms: ecrã, tela
    • 2012, John E. Gamble, Arthur A. Thompson Jr., Fundamentos da Administração Estratégica - 2ed, AMGH Editora, →ISBN, page 242:
      O iRiver Spinn era um player de vídeo e áudio com estilo, do tamanho de um cartão de crédito, que tinha um display LCD de 3,3 polegadas.
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Noun

display n (plural display-uri)

  1. display

Declension

Declension of display
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative display displayul display-uri display-urile
genitive-dative display displayului display-uri display-urilor
vocative displayule display-urilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation

Noun

display m (plural displays)

  1. display

Usage notes

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.