display

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpleɪ/

The English word “display” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

A show or spectacle.
A piece of work to be presented visually.
A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

verb

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
To discover; to descry.
To spread out, to unfurl.

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.

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