different between exemplative vs display

English

Adjective

exemplative (comparative more exemplative, superlative most exemplative)

1. Serving as or providing a typical example.
   • 1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page 28,

     The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.

   • 1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 199,

     The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.

   • 2000, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object, US Patent Office,

     Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword.

2. Exemplary.

Usage notes

• Whereas exemplary has positive connotations, exemplative is generally neutral.

Synonyms

• (providing an example): illustrative, demonstrative

Translations

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)

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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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

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 [...].

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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