display

A show or spectacle.countableuncountable

• The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

A piece of work to be presented visually.countableuncountable

• Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.

A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.countableuncountable

An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.countableuncountable

The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.countableuncountable

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.transitive

• The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.intransitive

• Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]

To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.

• The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.

To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.dated

To discover; to descry.obsolete

• And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

To spread out, to unfurl.obsolete

• 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 [...].