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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French despleier, desploier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”).
Noun
display (plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
Related terms
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- 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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- (transitive): To show conspicuously.
Translations
To spread out
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External links
- display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- display in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɪspleɪ/
Noun
display m. and n.
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Look up display in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Display may refer to:
- Display (horse) (1923–1944), an American thoroughbred racehorse
- Display (zoology), a form of animal behaviour
- Display advertising, type that typically contains text, i.e., copy, logos, images, location maps, etc.
- Display case, also known as a showcase or display cabinet, used to display objects for viewing
- Display device, output device for presentation of information
- Electronic visual display, output device for presentation of information for visual or tactile reception
- Flat panel display, video display that is much lighter and thinner than traditional ones
- Liquid crystal display television (LCD TV), color TVs that use LCD technology to produce images
- Display list, series of graphics commands that define an output image
- Display resolution, refers to the number of distinct pixels of a digital TV or monitor
- Display techniques in biochemistry:
- Display window, usually in a shop to display items for sale or attract customers
- Point-of-sale display, material object for promotion and/or providing information, i.e., in a shop or movie theater for a film promotion, etc.
- Refreshable Braille display, electro-mechanical device for displaying Braille characters
- Trade show display, the physical screens, banners and other paraphernalia used to fill a temporary exhibit space at a trade fair
- Volumetric display, forms a visual representation of an object in three physical dimensions
See also
- All pages with titles containing "Display"
- Computer font or display font, for use on a computer monitor
- Computer monitor or display
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