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exposition
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ksp??z???n/
Etymology 1
From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositio, from exponere (“to put forth”).
Noun
exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)
- The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
- (authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe the setting, characters and other non-plot elements.
- (obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
- An event at which goods, artwork and cultural displays are exhibited for the public to view.
- (authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
- (authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
- (music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
- The abandonment of an unwanted child.
Etymology 2
From French exposition (“exhibition”)
Noun
exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)
- The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
Derived terms
- expositional
- expositionary
Related terms
- exhibition
Translations
See also
- explanation
- exegesis
French
Etymology
From Old French esposicion, borrowed from Latin expositio, expositionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.spo.zi.sj??/
Noun
exposition f (plural expositions)
- exposition
- exhibition
- exposure
Further reading
- “exposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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