display

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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

• enPR: dĭsplāʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪ/, /ˈdɪspleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Hyphenation: dis‧play

Noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

1. A show or spectacle.

2. A piece of work to be presented visually.

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

   Synonym: cardboard display

4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

Descendants

• → Russian: диспле́й (displéj)
  • → Kazakh: дисплей (displei)

Translations

See also

Verb

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

   Troponyms: brandish, flaunt, show off
2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

   Synonym: splay

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Derived terms

Further reading

• “display”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “display”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “display”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleː/, /ˈdɪs.pleː/
• Hyphenation: dis‧play
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)

1. display (screen)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display (electronic screen)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Noun

display n (plural display-uri)

1. display

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /disˈplei/ [d̪isˈplei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display

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.