display

See also: Display

English

Cardboard displays in a supermarket (sense 3)

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/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Hyphenation: dis‧play

Noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

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.

   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

spectacle

• Arabic: إِظْهَار m (ʔiẓhār), عَرْض (ar) m (ʕarḍ)
• Bulgarian: излагане (bg) n (izlagane), показ (bg) m (pokaz)
• Catalan: espectacle (ca) m
• Dutch: spektakel (nl) n
• Finnish: esitys (fi), näytelmä (fi), näytös (fi), näky (fi)
• French: représentation (fr) f, spectacle (fr) m
• German: Vorführung (de) f, Vorstellung (de) f
• Greek: παράσταση (el) (parástasi)

  Ancient: ἐπίδειξις f (epídeixis)

• Hungarian: bemutató (hu), mutatvány (hu), előadás (hu)
• Irish: taispeántas m
• Italian: rappresentazione (it) f, saggio (it) m
• Latin: ostentus m
• Maori: whakakitenga
• Portuguese: exposição (pt) f, mostra (pt) f
• Romanian: spectacol (ro) f, expoziție (ro) f, reprezentație (ro) f
• Russian: пока́з (ru) m (pokáz), шо́у (ru) n (šóu), представле́ние (ru) n (predstavlénije), зре́лище (ru) n (zrélišče), демонстра́ция (ru) f (demonstrácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh m
• Spanish: espectáculo (es) m, exposición (es) m
• Swedish: uppvisning (sv) c
• Turkish: dürbün (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́каз m (pókaz)
• Vietnamese: biểu hiện (vi)

electronic screen

• Arabic: شَاشَة f (šāša)
• Armenian: ցուցասարք (hy) (cʻucʻasarkʻ), դիսփլեյ (hy) (dispʻley), էկրան (hy) (ēkran), մոնիտոր (hy) (monitor)
• Belarusian: дыспле́й m (dyspljéj), дысплэ́й m (dyspléj)
• Bulgarian: монитор m (monitor)
• Catalan: monitor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯示器／显示器 (zh) (xiǎnshìqì)

• Czech: displej (cs) m
• Dutch: display (nl) n, beeldscherm (nl) n
• Estonian: kuvar (et)
• Finnish: näyttö (fi), monitori (fi)
• French: moniteur (fr) m, écran (fr) m
• German: Display (de) n, Monitor (de) m, Bildschirm (de), Anzeige (de) f
• Greek: οθόνη (el) f (othóni)
• Hebrew: צג (he) m (tsag), מסך (he) m (masákh)
• Hungarian: kijelző (hu), képernyő (hu), megjelenítő (hu)
• Indonesian: layar (id)
• Italian: schermo (it) m, video (it) m
• Japanese: ディスプレイ (ja) (disupurei)
• Kazakh: дисплей (displei)
• Korean: 디스플레이 (diseupeullei)
• Kyrgyz: дисплей (ky) (displey)
• Malay: paparan
• Malayalam: ഡിസ്പ്ലേ (ḍisplē)
• Polish: wyświetlacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: display (pt) m, ecrã (pt) m (Portugal), tela (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: display (ro) n, ecran (ro) n, monitor (ro) n
• Russian: диспле́й (ru) m (displéj), диспле́й (ru) m (displɛ́j), монито́р (ru) m (monitór), экра́н (ru) m (ekrán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zaslon (sh) m

• Slovak: displej (sk) m
• Spanish: monitor (es) m
• Swedish: bildskärm (sv) c, monitor (sv) c, display (sv)
• Thai: จอภาพ (jɔɔ-pâap)
• Turkish: ekran (tr)
• Ukrainian: диспле́й m (dyspléj)
• Uzbek: displey (uz)

a device for visual presentation for sales promotion

• Dutch: verkoopstandaard m
• French: présentoir (fr) m
• Galician: expositor m
• German: Display (de) n
• Hungarian: papírállvány, bemutatóállvány, kiállítóállvány
• Italian: espositorio m, presentatoio m
• Portuguese: expositor (pt) m
• Spanish: expositor m, caja expositora f, góndola (es) f

See also

• characters
• CRT
• cursor
• digits
• graphics
• monitor
• screen
• VDU

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

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

     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.

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

     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. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
   • 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:

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

3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
   • 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:

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

4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
   • [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:

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

     The spelling has been modernized.

6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

   Synonym: splay

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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 [...].

Translations

to show conspicuously

• Armenian: ցույց տալ (hy) (cʻuycʻ tal)
• Azerbaijani: nümayiş etdirmək
• Belarusian: пака́зваць impf (pakázvacʹ), паказа́ць (be) pf (pakazácʹ)
• Bulgarian: показвам (bg) (pokazvam)
• Catalan: exhibir (ca)
• Dutch: tonen (nl)
• Esperanto: elmontri
• Finnish: esittää (fi), näyttää (fi)
• French: afficher (fr), étaler (fr), montrer (fr), présenter (fr)
• Galician: amosar (gl)
• German: zeigen (de), darstellen (de), präsentieren (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan), 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fauramēljan)
• Greek: παρουσιάζω (el) (parousiázo), προβάλλω (el) (provállo)

  Ancient: ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi)

• Hungarian: megmutat (hu), kimutat (hu), elárul (hu)
• Indonesian: menampilkan (id), menayangkan (id)
• Italian: mostrare (it), presentare (it), esibire (it), visualizzare (it)
• Latin: exhibeō (la), praestō
• Malayalam: പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക (ml) (pradaṟśippikkuka)
• Maori: tiori, whakamātakitaki, whakakite, tītohu
• Middle English: displayen
• Polish: wyświetlać (pl)
• Portuguese: exibir (pt), mostrar (pt), apresentar (pt)
• Russian: отобража́ть (ru) impf (otobražátʹ), отобрази́ть (ru) pf (otobrazítʹ), пока́зывать (ru) impf (pokázyvatʹ), показа́ть (ru) pf (pokazátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: prikazivati (sh) impf
• Slovak: zobraziť
• Spanish: exhibir (es), mostrar (es), presentar (es)
• Swahili: onyesha (sw)
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎙𐎊 (bġy)
• Ukrainian: пока́зувати (uk) impf (pokázuvaty), показа́ти pf (pokazáty), відобража́ти impf (vidobražáty), відобрази́ти pf (vidobrazýty)
• Vietnamese: trưng bày (vi)

to spread out

• Finnish: levittää (fi)
• French: étaler (fr)
• German: ausstrecken (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: φαίνω (phaínō)

• Hungarian: kiterjeszt (hu), kinyújt (hu), kiterít (hu)
• Italian: spiegare (it)
• Middle English: displayen, splayen
• Mongolian: дэлгэх (mn) (delgex)
• Russian: выставля́ть (ru) impf (vystavljátʹ), вы́ставить (ru) pf (výstavitʹ)
• Spanish: desplegar (es)
• Ukrainian: виставля́ти impf (vystavljáty), ви́ставити pf (výstavyty)

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• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} arddangos (cy)

Derived terms

titles derived from display (noun and verb)

• affect display
• air display
• codisplay
• courtship display
• displayability
• displayable
• display cabinet
• display case
• displayer
• display list
• display tearing
• display window
• ferroelectric liquid-crystal display
• field emission display
• heads-up display
• head-up display
• holodisplay
• liquid crystal display
• microdisplay
• misdisplay
• nondisplayed
• on display
• organic electroluminescent display
• pay-and-display
• pay and display
• plasma display
• predisplay
• public display of affection
• redisplay
• refreshable display
• semi-display
• shoulder display
• starburst display
• surface-conduction electron-emitter display
• undisplay
• undisplayed
• vacuum fluorescent display
• visual display unit
• volumetric display

 

Further reading

• “display”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “display”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “display”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleː/, /ˈdɪs.pleː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒisˈplej/ [d͡ʒisˈpleɪ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒisˈplej/ [d͡ʒisˈpleɪ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiʃˈplej/ [d͡ʒiʃˈpleɪ̯]

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display (electronic screen)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

   • 2012, John E. Gamble, Arthur A. Thompson Jr., Fundamentos da Administração Estratégica - 2ed, AMGH Editora, →ISBN, page 242:

     O iRiver Spinn era um player de vídeo e áudio com estilo, do tamanho de um cartão de crédito, que tinha um display LCD de 3,3 polegadas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Noun

display n (plural display-uri)

1. display

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	display	displayul		display-uri	display-urile
genitive-dative	display	displayului		display-uri	display-urilor
vocative	displayule			display-urilor

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.