display

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To present or hold up to view.
2. v. Computer Science To provide (information or graphics) on a screen.
3. v. To give evidence of; manifest.
4. v. To exhibit ostentatiously; show off.
5. v. To be endowed with (an identifiable form or character): a shrub that displays hardiness.
6. v. To express, as by gestures or bodily posture: a smirk that displayed contempt.
7. v. To spread out; unfurl: The peacock displayed its fan.
8. v. Computer Science To provide information or graphics on a screen: a personal computer that displays and prints.
9. n. The act of displaying.
10. n. A public exhibition.
11. n. Objects or merchandise set out for viewing by the public.
12. n. A demonstration or manifestation: a display of temper.
13. n. Biology A specialized pattern of behavior used to communicate visually, such as the presentation of colors or plumage by male birds as part of courtship or intimidation.
14. n. An instance of such behavior.
15. n. Ostentatious exhibition.
16. n. An advertisement or headline designed to catch the eye.
17. n. Computer Science A video display.
18. n. A visual representation of information.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To unfold; lay open; spread out; expand; disclose, as in curving or dissecting a body.
2. To show; expose to the view; exhibit to the eyes; especially, to show ostentatiously; parade flauntingly.
3. To exhibit to the mind; make manifest or apparent; bring into notice: as, to display one's ignorance or folly.
4. To discover; descry.
5. In printing, to make conspicuous or attractive; give special prominence to, as particular words or lines, by the use of larger type, wider space, etc. Synonyms To parade, show off.
6. To lay anything open, as in carving or dissecting.
7. To make a show or display.
8. To make a great show of words; talk demonstratively.
9. n. An opening, unfolding, or disclosing; a spreading of anything to the view, commonly with the sense of ostentation or a striving for effect; show; exhibition: as, a great display of banners; a display of jewelry.
10. n. Synonyms Show, Parade, etc. See ostentation.
11. n. In printing, the art of selecting and arranging types of unequal size, as in a title-page or advertisement, so as to make certain parts emphatic and the whole likely to attract attention.

Wiktionary

1. n. A show or spectacle.
2. n. computing An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
3. v. obsolete To spread out, to unfurl.
4. v. transitive : To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
2. v. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
3. v. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
4. v. To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
5. v. (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
6. v. obsolete To discover; to descry.
7. v. (Computers) To output (results or data) in a visible manner on the screen of a monitor, CRT, or other device.
8. v. To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
9. n. An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
10. n. Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
11. n. (Electronics) An electronic device on which the output signal of another electronic device may be presented in a visual form; -- also called display device. Typically the display device it is the screen of a cathode-ray tube, as in a computer monitor, but other forms of visual display such as LED or liquid crystal devices are also used. The printed output from a computer or other device is not considered as a display.
12. n. (Computers) The output signal from a computer program, displayed on a display device. The displayed signal may consist of letters, numbers, or any graphical image.
13. n. (Biology) a pattern of behavior, such as showing a body part to another animal, by which one animal conveys information to another, as for mating or defense.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. behavior that makes your feelings public
2. n. an electronic device that represents information in visual form
3. n. exhibiting openly in public view
4. v. attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals
5. v. to show, make visible or apparent
6. n. something shown to the public
7. n. a visual representation of something
8. n. something intended to communicate a particular impression