The Collaborative International Dictionary
Display \Dis*play"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Displaying.] [OE. displaien, desplaien, OF. despleier, desploier, F. d['e]ployer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + pleier, ploier, plier, F. ployer, plier, to fold, bend, L. plicare. See Ply, and cf. Deploy, Splay.]
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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
The northern wind his wings did broad display.
--Spenser. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
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To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army.
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To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
Proudly displaying the insignia of their order.
--Prescott. (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
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To discover; to descry. [Obs.]
And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers.
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(Computers) To output (results or data) in a visible manner on the screen of a monitor, CRT, or other device.
Syn: To exhibit; show; manifest; spread out; parade; expand; flaunt.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of display English)
Usage examples of "displaying".
The animal operating the grid center opened its mouth at him and showed its teeth, casually displaying its bestiality.
For the first time since she had worked with them, they were displaying emotion: their faces contorted with an excitement, a lust, an avidity that had nothing to do with civilized reactions.
The restaurant, a moderately priced supper club, had overdone itself in displaying a tropical motif.
I caught him glancing about us to be sure we were also displaying pleasure.
The redhead leapt back, drawing her hands protectively in against her body: her expression displaying a sudden anger which she as quickly suppressed with a laugh and a shrug.
We were," Jamas said, flipping open his cape on the floor and displaying a variety of foods, including a whole roasted fowl, breads, fruits, cheeses, and a flagon of wine.
The viewpoint pulled back, displaying one of those wave-crest hills overshadowing the building with the partial roof.
The dance of his fingertips on the sensitive pressure pads made the SPACED OUT screen on the far side of the room shift back and forth jerkily, displaying alternate images of deep space and of a flaming labyrinth where molten lava menaced the hapless play icons.
Carialle said, displaying star maps empty of neon-colored benchmarks or route vectors.
What are those," Brannel said, with emphasis, picking up one stone in one hand, a handful of stones in the other, and displaying first one and then the other.
Some of the women lingered, displaying real distress as their children were loaded back into the front four cars.
Roznine's office in Jerhattan was always tidy but here he was surrounded by pencil files of all colors, hard copy, and two monitors displaying graphs and curves, as well as a tray with half-eaten sandwiches.
He opened a box at random and removed, carefully, a handful of cloudy slivers, displaying them to Lanzecki and Killashandra.
And all of it printing out or displaying rapidly changing information.
Samel said and one of the screens above the pilot's console lit up, displaying a view of the lift.