display
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Is display a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.countableuncountable
2. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.Examples: "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."; "The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]."transitive
2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.Examples: "Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]"intransitive
3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.Examples: "The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies."
4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.dated
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.Examples: "And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers."obsolete
6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.Examples: "The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...]."Synonyms: splayobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary