different between display vs write

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)

1. A show or spectacle.

2. A piece of work to be presented visually.

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.
6. (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)

1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
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.

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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.

   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)

1. display (screen)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English display.

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. 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)

1. display

English

Etymology

From Middle English writen, from Old English wr?tan (“to incise, engrave, write, draw, bestow by writing”), from Proto-West Germanic *wr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan? (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ry? (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?t, IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: right, rite, wright

Verb

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
3. (transitive) To send written information to.

4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
6. (intransitive) To be an author.

7. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.

8. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.

9. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
11. (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (form letters, words or symbols in order to communicate): inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely)
• (be the author of): author, pen
• (send (a letter) to): to post
• (show (information, etc) in written form): display, indicate, mark, show
• (computing: store (data)): save, store
• (fill in, complete): sit (Commonwealth)
• See also Thesaurus:write

Antonyms

• (computing: store (data)): load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

write (plural writes)

1. The act or style of writing.
   • 1938, The Bankers Monthly (volume 55, page 591)

     The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.

2. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

   How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

   • 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

     In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

Derived terms

• quick-write

References

• write in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• write in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• twier, twire

Middle English

Verb

write

1. Alternative form of writen

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wr?ta, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan?. Cognate with English write, Dutch wrijten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vrit?/

Verb

write

1. to rip, to tear
2. to be painful, to sting

Inflection

Further reading

“write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011