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display
English
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”) + plic?re (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?spl??, IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: dis?play
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- A piece of work to be presented visually.
- A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
- (travel, aviation, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".
Descendants
- ? Russian: ???????? (displéj)
- ? Kazakh: ??????? (dïspley)
Translations
See also
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- Synonym: splay
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- 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 [...].
Translations
Further reading
- display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/, /?d?s.ple?/
- Hyphenation: dis?play
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
- display (screen)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display (electronic screen)
- Synonyms: ecrã, tela
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.
Spanish
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display
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grandeur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /???æn.d??/, /???æn.d???/, /???æn.d(j)??/, /???æn.d(j)?/
- Homophone: grander (one pronunciation)
Noun
grandeur (countable and uncountable, plural grandeurs)
- The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
- Nobility (state of being noble).
- (archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “grandeur”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
French
Etymology
Old French grandur, from grand +? -eur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????.dœ?/
- Homophone: grandeurs
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size
- (physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity
- (astronomy) magnitude
- grandeur
Derived terms
- folie des grandeurs
- grandeur d'âme
- grandeur nature
- ordre de grandeur
See also
- taille
- largeur
- hauteur
Further reading
- “grandeur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French grandur.
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size
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