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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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Etymology of 'Display'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Display" Quotes from Famous Books

... on increasing in Paris; the great lords, in their discontent, were quarrelling one with another; the Prince of Conde struck M. de Rieux, who returned the blow; the Duke of Nemours was killed in a duel by M. de Beaufort; the burgesses were growing weary of so much anarchy; a public display of feeling in favor of peace took place on the 24th of September in the garden of the Palais-Royal; those present stuck in their hats pieces of white paper in opposition to the Frondeurs' tufts of straw. People fought in the streets on behalf of these tokens. For some weeks past Cardinal ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. And the more we approach the problems of human history with this keen and piercing charity, the smaller and smaller space we shall allow to pure hypocrisy of any kind. The hypocrites shall ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... was the "living-room," in one corner of which stood a carved high-post bedstead—glory of the Macys and envy of their neighbors—with its curtains of big figured chintz, brown sunflowers sprawling over a white ground, drawn aside in the daytime to display the marvelous patchwork of the quilt beneath. Fuel was scarce even then on the sandy isle; and economy compelled Mr. and Mrs. Macy to make use of this living-room as a bedchamber also, since Thomas Macy confessed to "bein ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various

... centuries, covered by many stones, and still not dead. She saw him, the old king, sitting deep in the human heart. Over its barren field he spread his wide king's mantle. There pleasure danced, there love of display flaunted. He was the great stone warrior who saw famine and poverty pass by without his stone heart being moved. "It is the will of the gods," he said. He was the strong man of stone, who could bear unatoned-for sin without ...

— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

... supposing that by "baseness" is meant "self-love" here assigned as the motive of all human actions. Shakespeare meant only to observe, that a minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendour which dazzles the imagination. Whatever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by "baseness", by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill, all ...

— Preface to Shakespeare • Samuel Johnson

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