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Cardboard displays in a supermarket (sense 3)
See also: Display
English
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
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- Synonym: cardboard display
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
Descendants
Translations
spectacle
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electronic screen
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a device for visual presentation for sales promotion
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See also
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- 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, […].
- (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 (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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, 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.
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- , Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- Synonym: splay
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] 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
to show conspicuously
to spread out
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Derived terms
titles derived from display (noun and verb)
- affect display
- air display
- courtship display
- display cabinet
- display case
- display list
- display tearing
- display window
- ferroelectric liquid-crystal display
- field emission display
- heads-up display
- head-up display
- liquid crystal display
- on display
- organic electroluminescent display
- pay-and-display
- pay and display
- plasma display
- public display of affection
- refreshable display
- semi-display
- shoulder display
- starburst display
- surface-conduction electron-emitter display
- vacuum fluorescent display
- visual display unit
Further reading
- “display”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “display”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “display”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Pronunciation
Noun
display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
- display (screen)
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English display.
Pronunciation
Noun
display m (plural displays)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Noun
display n (plural display-uri)
Declension
Declension of display
| singular | plural | |||
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| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) display | displayul | (niște) display-uri | display-urile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) display | displayului | (unor) display-uri | display-urilor |
| vocative | displayule | display-urilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English display.
Pronunciation
Noun
display m (plural displays)
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.