Definition of Display

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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

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

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
Jon Stewart

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

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

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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