display

plural displays

1. countableuncountableA show or spectacle.

   The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

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   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).

   2008 May 9, Ian Bartholomew, “Get a bang out of Penghu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2008, Features, page 15

2. countableuncountableA piece of work to be presented visually.

   Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.

3. countableuncountableA device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.

   Synonyms: cardboard display

4. countableuncountablecomputingAn electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. countableuncountablecomputingThe presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

present singular third person displays · participle present displaying · participle past displayed · past displayed

1. transitiveTo show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

   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,[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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   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.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

2. intransitiveTo make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

   Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 293

3. governmentTo extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.

   The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.

   1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC

4. datedmediaTo make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. obsoleteTo discover; to descry.

   And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

   [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC

6. obsoleteTo spread out, to unfurl.

   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, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms: splay