displayn.
/dᵻˈspleɪ/, U.S. /dəˈspleɪ/ 1. † b. The act of setting forth descriptively; a description. Obsolete.
a. The act of displaying or unfolding to view or to notice; exhibition, manifestation.
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society > communication > manifestation > [noun]
uppingc950
showingOE
propositiona1382
evidencec1384
musterc1400
manifestation?a1425
demonstrationc1450
ostension1474
demonstrance1509
ostentationa1513
forthsetting1528
apparition1533
manifesting1536
outshow1547
objection1554
displaying1556
proclamation1567
discovery1576
remonstrance1583
appearance1587
explicature1592
ostent1600
object1609
showing forth1615
innotescencea1631
presentment1637
deplication1648
display1661
exertion1668
extraversion1675
exhibitiona1677
exertment1696
show-off1776
unfoldment1850
outcrop1854
outplay1859
eclosion1889
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing ii. 12 A glorious display of the highest form of created excellencies.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 205. ⁋5 At this display of riches every eye immediately sparkled.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxv. 181 You were not quite indifferent to the display of your literary qualifications.
1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 8 A too sudden display of the colossal dimensions..of the Abbey.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. i. 4 The display of horsetails at the gate of the Palace is the Ottoman signal of war.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiv. 193 An occasion for the display of his powers.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun]
descrivingc1325
declaration1382
descriptiona1387
devisementc1400
descrying1440
presentmentc1454
describing1553
delineation1578
display1583
presentation1597
representationa1602
diction1604
characterism1608
deciphera1670
characterization1801
redescription1839
descriptivism1935
1583 Stubbes (title) The Second part of the Anatomie of Abuses, containing The display of Corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections.
1610 J. Guillim (title) Display of Heraldry.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Display, a particular Explication.
a1714 J. Sharp Serm. I. v. (R.) For the more lively display of him..it will be fit that we represent him a little more particular under those several respects and capacities, in which his uprightness is principally seen and expressed.
c. The presentation of radar echoes or signals on the screen of a cathode-ray tube; a visual presentation of data from a computer, whether by means of a cathode-ray tube or some other device; also, a device or system used for this. = visual display at visual adj. 6e. Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > visual display units > display
display1945
1945 Electronic Engin. 17 684 If the target is out of sight the Radar display panel is used.
1945 Electronic Engin. 17 716 Photographs of the cathode-ray tube face showing..the main display.
1946 Electronic Engin 18 265 The I.F. rather than the video is fed from the main console to the display units.
1947 L. J. Haworth in L. N. Ridenour Radar System Engin. vi. 173 Target range is displayed as a horizontal coordinate and the display is expanded in the vertical dimension.
1947 L. J. Haworth in L. N. Ridenour Radar System Engin. vi. 173 The signals from a given target are correlated in the two displays on the basis of range and azimuth position.
1958 Listener 30 Oct. 691/1 New radar sets of much higher power, on which the display was sometimes covered with small echoes.
1960 R. S. Ledley Digital Computer & Control Engin. xxii. 756 Another scheme is to use an electroluminescent surface... Wires buried in the surface can be controlled by the computer to generate voltages, and hence light, as desired for picture displays.
1962 H. D. Huskey & G. A. Korn Computer Handbk. xviii. 21 The most common device which functions as a symbol display is the number wheel used in the odometer of an automobile.
1967 Technol. Week 20 Feb. 22/1 A vigorous developmental effort is in progress..to discover whether future command and control display systems for manned space flight should use all-digital techniques.
1969 Times 21 Jan. 5/8 The computer replies with an automatic display of the patient's answer.
2.
a. An exhibition, a show; a proceeding or occasion consisting in the exhibiting of something.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun]
display1661
exhibition1761
show shop1772
travelling exhibition1800
show1831
exposition1851
showing1885
exhibit1894
étalage1900
show-up1931
installation1969
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing Pref. 16 Some grains must be allow'd to a rhetorical display, which will not bear the rigour of a critical severity.
1789 W. Cowper On Queen's Visit to London 10 (17 March) 'Twas hard to tell of streets or squares Which formed the chief display.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic i. 6 The optical displays which hallowed their ancient temples.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 278 The display of dahlias..was most excellent.
1883 Gladstone in Glasgow Weekly Her. 9 June 1/7 Constant parades and military displays with bands and flags.
1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 210 Some of our most splendid meteoric displays.
b. Ornithology. A specialized pattern of behaviour used by birds as a visual means of communication, often in conjunction with characteristic calls. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > sexual display
play1858
lek1871
display1901
lekking1971
1901 Zoologist 5 344 Whether it was a conscious display or not..the birds could not have adopted an attitude or a position in relation to one another better adapted to show off the beauties of their plumage.
1914 Proc. Zool. Soc. No. 3. 524 The Display Ceremonies..seem so very like the Displays of solitary courtship.
1933 Brit. Birds 27 34 I had an opportunity of seeing the display of the male.
1937 Brit. Birds. XXX. 274 It seems that ‘display-building’ (that is, building regarded as a manifestation of sexual excitement) is shown by the Great Crested Grebe.
1938 Brit. Birds 32 86 The display flight was similar to that of related species.
1949 Brit. Birds 42 120 He immediately adopted the display attitude, exposing the throat at very close quarters and not attempting to turn round.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 23 A description of the spring display of the hooded crow has been given by the Misses Baxter and Rintoul, who watched a bird jumping a little distance into the air and then re-alighting at the same place to repeat the performance.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 23 The aerial display by a pair of birds also included ‘corkscrew’ or ‘figure-of-eight’ flights.
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 203/2 When two or more incompatible tendencies are present, various types of ambivalent behaviour may occur..and some instances of this have been specialised in evolution for a communicatory function and thus may be designated as displays.
3. Show, ostentation.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
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strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
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bravity1546
finesse1549
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peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
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vantation1637
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finery1656
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ostentatiousness1658
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pretension1706
braw1724
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showiness1730
ostensibility1775
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display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xvii, in Siege of Corinth 84 He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade.
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 21 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is the lust of display.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 100 A house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women.
4. Printing. The selection and arrangement of types so as to call attention to important parts of the subject matter: used in regard to title-pages and advertisements.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > display printing
display1824
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 588 An alteration in the method of display and a new mode in the arrangement of the matter, became now very general.
5. Music. Designating a piece of music that specially displays the performer's skill or virtuosity.
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1959 Listener 9 July 76/3 This is a display piece; it shows off an orchestra's virtuosity.
1959 Listener 17 Dec. 1093/2 Hindemith's thirty-four-year-old Concerto for Orchestra, a rollicking piece of display music.
1961 Listener 9 Nov. 789/3 The big coloratura aria of Zerbinetta..unhappily revives the most regrettable features of the old display aria.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense 4.)
display-ad n. colloquial.
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1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. v. 160 Want-ad, display-ad.
1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace xxxvi. 250 Display-ads of the kind you're putting now in London dailies.
display-face n.
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1948 H. Missingham Student's Guide Commerc. Art ii. 80 Display faces..comprise the larger sizes of letters used for newspaper headlines, titlepages, and headings or displayed advertisements.
display-heading n.
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1907 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 4 According to the display-heading—‘Rich Woman Fell Down Cellar’.
1919 B. Sherbow Making Type Work 35 Too Many Capital Letters in a Display Heading Confuse the Eye.
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display cabinet n.
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1933 Connoisseur Nov. 348/2 Two Chippendale display cabinets in the Chinese taste.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iii. 73 The crib-figures..were spread about on the glass top of a display cabinet.
display-case n. a case (see case n.2 3a) in which items are displayed for inspection.
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1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 328 A glass counter and display-case full of women's things.
display hand n. (a) one who sets up display-type; (b) a pyrotechnist employed chiefly to assist in firework displays.
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1896 Daily News 1 Dec. 12/7 (advt.) Compositor.—— First-class Jobbing and Display Hand seeks situation.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §148 Display hand..; pyrotechnist: assists at firework display, lighting fuses [etc.].
display-letter n. a letter or type used for displaying printed matter; cf. 4 above.
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1855 W. B. Wood Pers. Recoll. Stage xxiii. 452 Proclaiming the name of the star in display letters a foot or a yard long.
display lighting n. lighting used to illuminate objects, buildings, etc., on display.
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1950 Ann. Reg. 1949 465 Restrictions were still imposed on shop-window, advertisement, and display lighting.
display-stand n. a stand, rack, shelf, etc. for displaying goods.
display-type n. see display-letter n.
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1863 Boston Herald 15 Mar. 4/1 Printers and editors may look out for late sights and display type.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes 536 Display type, the largest and specially designed type faces used to attract attention.
display window n. originally U.S. a large shop-window in which merchandise is displayed.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-front > shop window
shop window1415
in the window1700
show window1785
display window1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Display window.
1945 J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xi. 47 The final climax came with the front of Holman's bootery broken out and the party trying on shoes in the display window.
1964 C. Buchanan Traffic in Towns 67 Conventional shopping streets with display windows facing pavements.
display-work n. (see quot.).
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 32 Display work, Type displayed, such as titles, headings, and jobbing work, is thus termed to distinguish it from ordinary solid composition.
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displayv.
/dᵻˈspleɪ/, U.S. /dəˈspleɪ/ 1. intransitive for reflexive.1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes i. xvii. 81 When..their ensignes will not displaie abroade but folde about the stander bearers heads.† b. Military. To spread out (troops) so as to form a more extended line; = deploy v. 2. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To unfold, expand, spread out; to unfurl (a banner, sail). Now Obsolete except as influenced by sense 3, and understood as ‘to unfold to view’ (a banner or the like).
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the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > unfurl or unfold
unfoldc890
untrenda1272
displayc1330
splayc1330
unplyc1330
outrolla1393
unlapa1400
unplight?c1400
unrollc1425
deploy1477
to shake outc1550
explicate1562
disvelop1592
unfurl1641
develop1656
unwrap1807
unshroud1846
to roll out1849
1292 Britton ii. xxii. §4 Si la disseisine fust fete a banere desplaé, ou as chevaus covertz.]
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 2 Ine..displayed his banere, & went to þe bataile.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 6 Ther yssed oute empresses thre, Theire here displayed.
c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 97 The cloth was displayed sone.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvii. 96 To sprede and dysploye the sayles.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxi. 131 And made hys banere to be dysployed abrode.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxxvi. 88 There was displaide a flagge in the top of the Factorie.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5 The old-woman carefully displayd The clothes about her round with busy ayd.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iv. 114 With Doors display'd, the golden Palace shines.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 259 [He] displaid his sails to a prosperous west wind.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 12 Elastick..Particles, that have a continual tendency and endeavour to expand and display themselves.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 63 See..her sable flag display'd.
1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 97 A flag was to be displayed on the discovery of a supposed enemy at sea.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > draw up (troops) > in extended formation
display1591
deploy1786
front1796
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 259 Agricola..fearing lest he should be assayled on the front and flanckes both at one instant, displaied his army in length.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 196 Fought with troupes displayed out thinnely in length.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 151 The English men..display their ranks, and..presse hard upon their enemies.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. To display (Mil.), in French déployer, to extend the front of a column.
2. † b. Carving. The technical term for: To carve (a crane). Obsolete.absolute.1711–14 Spectator (J.) He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder.
a. To lay or place (a person or animal) with the limbs extended; to extend (a limb, wing, etc.) spec. in Heraldry: see displayed adj. 2.
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the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > spread (something) out or open
abredeeOE
bredeOE
stretcha1000
to-spreada1000
openOE
spreadc1175
displayc1320
to let outc1380
to open outc1384
outspreada1400
spald?a1400
splayc1402
expand?a1475
to lay along1483
speld?a1500
skail1513
to set abroad1526
to lay abroad1530
flarec1550
bespread1557
to set out1573
dispread1590
explaina1600
expanse1600
dispack1605
splat1615
dispand1656
extend1676
flat1709
spelder1710
spreadeagle1829
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 640 Toward þe cros hys bak he layde, And hys real armes oute he dysplayde.
1486 Bk. St. Albans B v iij a Display the wynge esely and holde it betwene the ij partes of the loofe.
1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers in Three Primers Henry VIII (1848) 328 O Lord which hast displayed thine hands and feet, and all thy body on a cross for our sins.
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I Sleep oppressed him, Displaid on ground.
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I3 Thou..Thy careles limbs in loose sleep dost display.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > carve > crane
display?1478
?1478 Lydgate's Horse, Goose & Sheep (Caxton) (1822) 33 A crane displayed, a pecok disfigured.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.i Dysplaye that crane. Take a crane and vnfolde his legges, and cut of his wynges by the Ioyntes.
1804 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 10) 293.
3.
a. To open up or expose to view, exhibit to the eyes, show.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > show to the sight [verb (transitive)]
to set beforea1000
openOE
showlOE
to put forth?c1225
kithe1297
to make (a) showing ofc1330
presenta1398
representa1398
to lay forthc1420
splayc1440
discovera1450
advisea1500
to set to (the) show?1510
to stall out1547
outlay1555
exhibit1573
strew1579
wray1587
displaya1616
ostentate1630
elevate1637
re-exhibita1648
expound1651
unveil1657
subject1720
flare1862
skin1873
patent1889
showcase1939
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 955 Hir brest & hir bryȝt þrote bare displayed, Schon shyrer þen snawe.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 161 Displaieth hir crown geyn Phebus bemys brihte.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 56 I..to Sunnes parching heat display'd my cheekes. View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 222 By this means..the Grain-Gold, upon all the Golden Coast..is displayed.
1777 W. Jones Poems (ed. 2) 46 Th' alluring stream, That through the grove display'd a silver gleam.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 Round the apartment..was displayed in close array the silver and pewter plate.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xix. 234 More recently the Royal Banner has always displayed the Arms of England.
b. Printing. To make more prominent (a word, line, etc.) by using larger type, wider spacing, etc.
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1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 32 Display work Type displayed, such as titles, headings, and jobbing work, is thus termed to distinguish it from ordinary solid composition.
4. To unfold or exhibit to other senses, to observation generally, or to the mind.† a. To give utterance to, pour forth, utter. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [verb (transitive)] > utter
leadOE
givec1175
tell?c1225
talkc1275
to set upa1325
to put outc1350
soundc1374
to give upc1386
pronouncea1393
cough1393
moutha1400
profera1400
forth withc1400
utterc1400
to put forth1535
display1580
vent1602
accent1603
respeak1604
vocalize1669
fetch1707
go1836
outen1951
1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxvii. vii Heare, Lord, when I my voice display.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 210 A thousand warbling Notes thy throat displayes.
b. To exhibit, make manifest, cause to be observed or perceived.
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society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]
uppec897
atewOE
sutelec1000
openOE
awnc1175
kithec1175
forthteec1200
tawnec1220
let witc1275
forthshowa1300
to pilt out?a1300
showa1300
barea1325
mythc1330
unfoldc1374
to open outc1390
assign1398
mustera1400
reyve?a1400
vouchc1400
manifest?a1425
outshowc1425
ostendc1429
explayc1443
objecta1500
reveala1500
patefy?1509
decipher1529
relieve1533
to set outa1540
utter1542
report1548
unbuckle1548
to set forth1551
demonstrate1553
to hold forth1560
testify1560
explicate1565
forthsetc1565
to give show of1567
denudec1572
exhibit1573
apparent1577
display?1578
carry1580
cipher1583
laya1586
foreshow1590
uncloud?1594
vision1594
explain1597
proclaim1597
unroll1598
discloud1600
remonstrate1601
resent1602
to bring out1608
palesate1613
pronounce1615
to speak out1623
elicit1641
confess1646
bear1657
breathe1667
outplay1702
to throw out1741
evolve1744
announce1781
develop1806
exfoliate1808
evince1829
exposit1882
pack1925
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 16 At last the Altitonant displayz me hiz mayn poour.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. i. 66 Thy busie hands addresse Their labour, to display.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 115 The..Air..sufficing..to display a considerable pressure upon the surface of the Mercury.
1772 W. Jones Poems 127 The curling eglantines display'd..an aromatick shade.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 415 The new English drama..was beginning to display its wonderful powers.
1885 Manch. Examiner 16 June 4/7 The same insubordination was displayed still more offensively.
5. † b. intransitive (for reflexive). To make a great show or display; to act in an ostentatious manner. Obsolete.
a. esp. To exhibit ostentatiously; to show off, make a show of.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)]
flourishc1380
show1509
ostent1531
ostentatec1540
to ruffle it1551
to brave out1581
vaunt1590
boasta1592
venditate1600
to make the most ofa1627
display1628
to make (a) parade of1656
pride1667
sport1684
to show off1750
flash1785
afficher1814
affiche1817
parade1818
flaunt1822
air1867
showboat1937
ponce1953
rock1987
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxvii. sig. F1v These few good parts hee has, hee is no niggard in displaying.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xviii. 131 Many great Divines were faint to display their eloquence.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 20 These Sparks with aukward Vanity display What the fine Gentlemen wore Yesterday.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. iv. 69 Their Business in coming into Company..[is] to display themselves.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 27. ⁋8 That part of his discourse in which he most endeavoured to display his imagination.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 220 The very fellow that..Display'd so sawcily against your Highnes. View more context for this quotation
c. Ornithology. intransitive. To engage in or use display (see display n. 2b).
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > engage in sexual display
play1765
display1902
1902 Zoologist 6 197 The displaying bird crouched, upon which the pairing took place.
1936 Nature 27 June 1057/2 Birds of many species pair before they display and often pair for life.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 188 A male coal tit displaying to an apparently disinterested female with her back turned to the ardent suitor.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 292 To watch a male gold-crest displaying to the lady of his choice.
6. transitive. To disclose, reveal, or show, unintentionally or incidentally; to allow to be seen or perceived, to betray.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > incidentally or inadvertently
betraisec1400
babble?1535
to let fall1592
display1602
split1850
to give away1878
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E2 If you are but seene, Your armes display you; therefore put them off.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 171 He began to display..some token of suspition.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 568 All the variety of colours which flowers display.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 146 A grand entertainment, which displayed both the barbarism and the magnificence of the Asiatic.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 100 Having displayed your ignorance of the nature of courage.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]
depaint?c1225
paintc1275
figurec1380
resemblea1393
portraya1398
represent?a1425
impicture1523
portrait1548
shadow1553
to paint forth1558
storize1590
personate1591
limn1593
propound1594
model1604
table1607
semble1610
rendera1616
to paint out1633
person1644
present1649
to figure out1657
historize1668
to fancy out1669
to take off1680
figurate1698
refer1700
display1726
depicture1739
depict1817
actualize1848
the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)]
sayOE
devisec1300
readc1300
to make (a) showing ofc1330
counterfeitc1369
expressc1386
scrievec1390
descrya1400
scrya1400
drawa1413
representc1425
describec1450
report1460
qualify?1465
exhibit1534
perscribe1538
to set out1545
deline1566
delineate1566
decipher1567
denotate1599
lineate16..
denote1612
givea1616
inform?1615
to shape out1633
speaka1637
display1726
to hit off1737
1726–31 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (1743) II. xvii. 156 To display in a few words the Elogy of this illustrious queen.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 79. ⁋8 The princes were once displaying their felicity, and each boasting the advantages of his own dominions.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. Pref. p. i The admirable Linnæus has displayed them [sc. arguments] at large in an oration.
1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 5 Zealous to display every proof of the king's greatness of mind.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. ii. 187 He..did his tale display.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > disperse, etc., humours or morbid matter
cleansec1000
resolvea1398
slaya1400
dissolvec1400
evacuec1400
mundify?a1425
repel?a1425
attenuate1533
evacuate1533
discuss?1537
divert?1541
extenuate1541
intercide?1541
educe1574
scour1577
attray1579
clenge1582
divertise1597
derive1598
revel1598
display1607
draw1608
incide1612
correct1620
fuse1705
lavage1961
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 107 The fat of this beast is reserued by some for heating, softening, and displaying tumours in the flesh.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 651 The vse of this by reason it is very hot, is to display vlcers and tumors in wounds.
9. To discover, get sight of, descry. [In Spenser and his imitators; as if ‘to unfold to one's own view’.] Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > succeed in seeing or catch sight of
underyetec1000
aspya1250
kenc1275
ofyetec1275
choosea1300
akenc1300
descrivec1300
ofkenc1300
readc1300
espyc1320
descryc1330
spyc1380
discernc1405
discover1553
scan1558
scry1558
decern1559
describe1574
to make out1575
escry1581
interview1587
display1590
to set sight of (in)c1595
sight1602
discreevec1650
glance1656
to catch a glimpse of1679
steal1731
oversee1735
glimpse1779
twig1796
to clap eyes on1838
spot1848
sky1900
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Bb1 They..did at last display Thot wanton Lady, with her louer.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 74 He..from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorn'd with tow'rs.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. 350 He might display The shady hills of the Phaeacian shore.
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- furnace-fire
- furnace-firer
- furnace-glow
- furnace-heat
- furnace-house
- furnace-like
- furnace-pumice
- furnace-smoke
- furnace-tube
- furnace-ward
- furnacebar
- furnacebridge
- furnaceburning
- furnacechink
- furnacecoke
- furnaced
- furnacedrift
- furnaceearth
- furnacefeeder
- furnacefiller
- furnacefire
- furnacefirer
- furnaceglow
- furnaceheat