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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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mouse
English
Alternative forms
- mowse (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English mous, from Old English m?s, from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s.
The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control".
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ma?s/
- (US) enPR: mous, IPA(key): /ma?s/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /m??s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
- (US) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /m??s/, /ma?z/
- Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z
Noun
mouse (plural mice)
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
- (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
- (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
- (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.
Hypernyms
- (small rodent): rodent
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- (small rodent): rat
- (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick
Derived terms
Related terms
- muss
Descendants
Translations
Verb
mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)
- (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
- (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
- (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
- Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
- 1988, MacUser, Volume 4
- I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
- 1988, MacUser, Volume 4
- (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- muscle
- mussel
Further reading
- mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
- meous, moues
Chinese
Etymology
From English mouse.
Pronunciation
Noun
mouse
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: ??? c; ??? c)
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?maws/
Noun
mouse m (invariable)
- (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)
Derived terms
- tappetino per mouse
Anagrams
- esumo, esumò, museo
Middle English
Noun
mouse
- Alternative form of mous
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?maw.zi/, /?mawz/
Noun
mouse m (plural mouses)
- (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
- Synonym: (Portugal) rato
- (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)
- Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mouse.
Romanian
Alternative forms
- maus
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse.
Noun
mouse n (plural mouse-uri)
- (computing) mouse (for a PC)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse. Doublet of mur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?maus/, [?mau?s]
Noun
mouse m (plural mouses)
- (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)
- Synonym: ratón
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