display
//dɪsˈpleɪ//
Forms
- Plural
- displays
- present (v1)
- display
- past (v2)
- displayed
- past participle (v3)
- displayed
- present participle
- displaying
- 3rd person singular
- displays
Definitions
1.A show or spectacle.
- The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
2.A piece of work to be presented visually.
- Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
3.A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
4.An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
1.To 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,[…].
2.To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
- The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.
3.To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2226
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.