display

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   behavior that makes your feelings public

   a display of emotion

2. 2
   noun

   something intended to communicate a particular impression

   made a display of strength

3. 3
   noun

   exhibiting openly in public view

   a display of courage

4. 4
   noun

   A show or spectacle.

   The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

5. 5
   noun

   A piece of work to be presented visually.

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

6. 6
   verb

   To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   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 […]

8. 8
   verb

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

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

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.