display Definition

display
verb displays, displayed, displaying

1. To put someone or something on view.

Thesaurus: show, showcase, demonstrate, exhibit, present, parade; Antonym: hide.
2. To show or betray (eg feelings).

Thesaurus: show, exhibit, betray, reveal, flaunt.
3. printing.
To present (advertising copy) in an eye-catching way.

noun displays

1. The act of displaying.
2. An exhibition; a show of talent; an arrangement of objects on view.

Thesaurus: spectacle, exhibit, show, exhibition, presentation, exposition, demonstration, performance.
3. The visual display unit linked to a computer, or the digital characters of a liquid-crystal display unit used in watches, calculators, etc.
4. A pattern of animal behaviour most frequently associated with courtship or the defence of territory, usually involving stereotyped sounds, movements, colour patterns, etc, that produces a specific response in another individual, especially of the same species.
5. printing.
Presentation of advertising copy, etc, in an eye-catching way, through appropriate use of typefaces, space, etc.

Etymology: 14c: from French despleier.