Word Finder - display

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A show or spectacle.

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The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.

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A piece of work to be presented visually.

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

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An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

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The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.

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(travel, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".

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

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

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

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To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.

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To discover; to descry.

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To spread out, to unfurl.

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• splay

It served him right after his display yesterday.

Sofia watched, astonished at the blatant display, and almost didn't prep herself for her first encounter.

His display of cowardice was pitiful.

His display was too late.

She dreaded discovering what it was until he ripped it open to display woodchips.

Damian said with warmth she hadn't seen him display toward anyone else.

A glance at the display confirmed it was Alex.

He stood beside her and they both watched mother natures' display in rapt silence.

The death dealer stripped off his shirt and weapons to display a muscular body.

Now, she felt out of place, like she was sitting in a display at a furniture store.

Sofia pushed up her shades to display blue eyes rimmed with silver.

The display indicated a missed call – his.

Suspecting he'd just driven Sofi's healer completely catatonic, he peeled her soaked sweater and jeans off to display matching pink underwear.

His display of checked power disturbed her.

The grey wall slid away to display an escape pod, large enough for one person standing.

You.re not pissed about the display, are you?

Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had told him to expect.

We five hirelings, as dissimilar as snowflakes, are tripping over one another in an effort to display mutual accommodation.

She turned to display the marking on her back.

He flipped a switch to display an aerial of the country club on one wall and Dusty's condo on another.

Do not display your treasures or people will become envious.

Unwilling to let the weirdness ruin her day, Deidre dismissed the strange exchange, distracted by the smells coming from a display of homemade candles.

He crossed his arms to display roped forearms and sat on the edge of his desk.

Aggravated by her second display of defiance in one night, he crossed to her and planted his hands on either side of her chair, demanding her attention.

Deidre twisted to display the tattoos marking her as Darkyn's.

He explored the crypt, gaze going to the display of his mother on one wall.

The burning in her eyes had little to do with the creek water, and after such a cowardly display, she didn't want him to catch her crying.

Jessi gasped at the effortless display of power.

They display considerable knowledge of Latin, but less of Greek, on the value of which he strongly insisted.

Not all the gorgeous display of the Champ de Mai (held on the 1st of June) could hide the discontent at the meagre fulfilment of the promises given at Lyons.

The thoracic segments, as seen in an early stage of the ventral plate, display in a well-marked manner the essential elements of the insect segment.

The works of Raoul Rochette display a comprehensive knowledge of the whole subject, extensive reading, and a thorough acquaintance with early Christian art so far as it could be gathered from books, but he was not an original investigator.

On the r4th (the anniversary of Marengo) Lannes carried out his role of fighting advanced guard or screen, the emperor's main body gradually came up, and the battle of Friedland (q.v.), notable chiefly for the first display of the new artillery tactics of the French, ended with a general attack about 5 P.M.

The antipyretic action which considerable doses of aconite display is not specific, but is the result of its influence on the circulation and respiration and of its slight diaphoretic action.

Like the iguanas, they (at least the males) are provided with a large, expansible dewlap at the throat, which is brilliantly coloured, and which they display on the slightest provocation.

All his writings display wide learning and acuteness.

When she crawled into bed and turned off the light, the night sky performed a fireworks display in the distance.

He peeled off a glove to display a hand as scarred as his face.

He sat like he owned the pub, leaning back in the chair in a display of relaxed power.

She'd forgotten his presence, but he peeled off one glove to display a scarred forearm and hand.

Kris lit another torch to display a darkened case on the wall.

Katie inched forward, peeking out as the two creatures smashed into furniture and porcelain figurines on display in the wide foyer.

His gaze went to the sunrise, a brilliant display of reds and oranges over the desert.

His coins of 270 struck at Alexandria bear the legend v(ir) c(onsularis) R(omanorum) im(perator) d(ux) R(omanorum) and display his head beside that of Aurelian, but the latter alone is styled Augustus.

His funeral was a most remarkable display of public esteem, in which nearly all the ruling princes of Germany joined, and was a striking sign of the position to which, after twenty years of incessant struggle, he had raised his party.

The ruling classes among them display all the vices of the lower classes, and few of the virtues except that of courtesy.

At this period Athens was altogether overshadowed in material strength by the great Hellenistic monarchies and even by the new republican leagues of Greece; but she could still on occasion display great energy and patriotism.

This calamity afforded the American people an opportunity to display their generosity toward their new colony.

They made a greater display of brilliant metal and gorgeous colour than the Roman armies, for instance.

The Somali love display; they are inordinately vain and avaricious; but they make loyal and trustworthy soldiers and are generally bright and intelligent.