display

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.

noun

1. A show or spectacle.
   The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
2. A piece of work to be presented visually.
   Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
3. A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

verb

1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
   Troponyms: brandish, flaunt, show off
   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, […]. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess
2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.