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Display   /dɪsplˈeɪ/   Listen
noun
Display  n.  
1.
An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. "Having witnessed displays of his power and grace."
2.
Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade. "He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade."
3.
(Electronics) An electronic device on which the output signal of another electronic device may be presented in a visual form; also called display device. Typically the display device it is the screen of a cathode-ray tube, as in a computer monitor, but other forms of visual display such as LED or liquid crystal devices are also used. The printed output from a computer or other device is not considered as a display.
4.
(Computers) The output signal from a computer program, displayed on a display device. The displayed signal may consist of letters, numbers, or any graphical image.
5.
(Biology) A pattern of behavior, such as showing a body part to another animal, by which one animal conveys information to another, as for mating or defense.


verb
Display  v. t.  (past & past part. displayed; pres. part. displaying)  
1.
To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. "The northern wind his wings did broad display."
2.
(Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
3.
To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. "His statement... displays very clearly the actual condition of the army."
4.
To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. "Proudly displaying the insignia of their order."
5.
(Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
6.
To discover; to descry. (Obs.) "And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers."
7.
(Computers) To output (results or data) in a visible manner on the screen of a monitor, CRT, or other device.
Synonyms: To exhibit; show; manifest; spread out; parade; expand; flaunt.


Display  v. i.  To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.





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"Display" Quotes from Famous Books



... the grounds and exhibits. Industrial and commercial progress were emphasized. The United States had a special exhibit to illustrate the work of the different departments. In the harbor, one of the finest in the world, was the greatest international naval display ever witnessed. Every variety of war-vessel in existence was on exhibition besides commercial and passenger boats from the great ports ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... companies of sepoys to support him. He provokes the people, he goads them with every kind of insult added to every kind of injury, and then rushes into the very jaws of danger, provoking a formidable foe by the display of a ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; and (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the ...
— Reproduction of Copyrighted Works By Educators and Librarians • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
... give a similar and equal display of memory.) Dr. Knapp has corroborated several details of "Lavengro" which confirm Borrow's opinion of his memory. Hearing the author whom he met on his walk beyond Salisbury, speak of the "wine of 1811, the comet year," Borrow said that he remembered being in the market-place ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... Paris, settling in the Marais quarter. Honore continued his studies at two different schools successively, first at the Lepitre school, in the Rue Saint-Louis, and then at the establishment of Sganzer and Bauzelin, in the Rue de Thorigny, where he continued to display the same mediocrity and the same indifference regarding the tasks required of him. Having finished the prescribed courses, he returned to his family, which at this time was living at No. 40, Rue du Temple, and his father decided ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet


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