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display

noun
/dɪsˈpleɪ/

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.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from displicare
  3. derived from despleier
  4. derived from despleier
  5. inherited from displayen

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…

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

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

    2. The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

    3. To show conspicuously

      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,[…].

    4. To make a display

      To 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 […]

    5. To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.

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

    6. To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.

    7. To discover

      To discover; to descry.

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

    8. To 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 [...].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at display. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at display. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at display

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA