Display

/dɪsˈpleɪ/ · noun

Meaning

A show or spectacle..

Definitions by Sense

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.
4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
6. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
7. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
8. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.

Example Sentences

The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

The festival has been popular with locals since it began in 2003. This year, in addition to the skies over the Siying Archway Bridge (西瀛虹橋) near the main town of Makung (馬公市), there will be fireworks displays over the Penghu Sea-Crossing Bridge (跨海大橋) in Paisha Township (白沙鄉) and the Kuanri Recreational Area (觀日遊憩區) in Huhsi Township (湖西鄉).

Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.

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.

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,[…].

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

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

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

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