DISPLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does display mean? 

• DISPLAY (noun)
  The noun DISPLAY has 6 senses:

1. something intended to communicate a particular impression

2. something shown to the public

3. a visual representation of something

4. behavior that makes your feelings public

5. exhibiting openly in public view

6. an electronic device that represents information in visual form

  Familiarity information: DISPLAY used as a noun is common.

• DISPLAY (verb)
  The verb DISPLAY has 2 senses:

1. to show, make visible or apparent

2. attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals

  Familiarity information: DISPLAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something intended to communicate a particular impression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

display; show

Context example:

a good show of looking interested

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

demo; demonstration (a visual presentation showing how something works)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

big stick (a display of force or power)

gaudery; pomp (cheap or pretentious or vain display)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something shown to the public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

display; exhibit; showing

Context example:

the museum had many exhibits of oriental art

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

light show (a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns)

parade (a visible display)

Derivation:

display (to show, make visible or apparent)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A visual representation of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

display; presentation

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

float (an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade)

Snellen chart (display consisting of a printed card with letters and numbers in lines of decreasing size; used to test visual acuity)

spectacle (an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Behavior that makes your feelings public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a display of emotion

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

histrionics (a deliberate display of emotion for effect)

production (a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated)

sackcloth and ashes (a display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Exhibiting openly in public view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

a display of courage

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

screening; showing; viewing (the display of a motion picture)

presentation (the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it)

flaunt (the act of displaying something ostentatiously)

fanfare; flash; ostentation (a gaudy outward display)

sight (anything that is seen)

array (an impressive display)

acting out ((psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An electronic device that represents information in visual form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

display; video display

Hypernyms ("display" is a kind of...):

electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)

Meronyms (parts of "display"):

raster (the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "display"):

monitor; monitoring device (display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor)

window ((computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen)

VDU; visual display unit ((British) British term for video display)

CRT screen; screen (the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube)

flat panel display; FPD (a type of video display that is thin and flat; commonly used in laptop computers)

board; display board; display panel (a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view)

alphanumeric display; digital display (a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters))

caller ID (a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you)

• DISPLAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they display    ... he / she / it displays   
Past simple: displayed   
Past participle: displayed   
-ing form: displaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To show, make visible or apparent

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

display; exhibit; expose

Context example:

National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship

Hypernyms (to "display" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "display"):

open (display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer)

bring forth; produce (bring out for display)

hold up (hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration)

bench (exhibit on a bench)

moon (expose one's buttocks to)

flash; flaunt; ostentate; show off; swank (display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously)

brandish (exhibit aggressively)

model (display (clothes) as a mannequin)

model; pose; posture; sit (assume a posture as for artistic purposes)

gibbet; pillory (expose to ridicule or public scorn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

display (something shown to the public)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "display" is one way to...):

court; romance; solicit; woo (make amorous advances towards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Female mice exposed in utero, or in the womb, to low levels of arsenic through drinking water displayed signs of early puberty and became obese as adults.

(Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity in female mice, NIH)

A market-wide investigation made by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) concluded that five commercially available products displayed false negative results.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

This gene is involved in antigen presentation, a process through which an antigen produced by a cell is displayed on the cell’s outer surface and is thereby “presented” to the immune system.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

WASP-18b is the first known example of an orbiting planet that has apparently caused its star, which is roughly the mass of our sun, to display traits of an older star.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

A global ocean would be surprising, said Tajeddine, as the surface of Mimas does not display signs of geologic activity.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

Pluto’s icy plains also display dark streaks that are a few miles long.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

Haulani perfectly displays the properties for a fresh impact into the surface of Ceres.

(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)

The scientists found that HIV targets CD4+ T cells displaying alpha-4 beta-7 very early in infection, particularly in the gut.

(Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, National Institutes of Health)

These findings add to the possibility that Enceladus, which contains a subsurface ocean and displays remarkable geologic activity, could contain environments suitable for living organisms.

(Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity, NASA)

The naturally occuring prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) which displays a variety of pharmacologic actions.

(Alprostadil, NCI Thesaurus)