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Definition of Display
Display

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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

To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.

To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.

To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.

To discover; to descry.

To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.

Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.

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Display Quotations

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. Johnson

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin

Display Translations

display in Dutch is pralen, paraderen, prijken, pronken
display in German is ausgeben, Anzeige {f}
display in Italian is vetrina, veduta, esposizione, denuncia, emersione
display in Latin is promptu, propono, exhibeo exibeo, praefero
display in Norwegian is utstilling, oppvisning


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