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exhibition
English
Etymology
From Old French exhibicion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ks??b???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
exhibition (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitions)
- An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
- A large-scale public showing of objects or products.
- There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
- a boat exhibition
- A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shamfeul exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
- (Britain) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 352:
- He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
- 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:
- Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 352:
- (sports) A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.
Derived terms
- exhibitionism
- exhibitionist
- make an exhibition of oneself
- Exhibition Road
Related terms
- exposition
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exhibiti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.zi.bi.sj??/
Noun
exhibition f (plural exhibitions)
- (sports) exhibition, friendly
- (document) presentation, production
- showing off, outrageous behaviour
Derived terms
- match d'exhibition
- exhibitionnisme
- exhibitionniste
Further reading
- “exhibition” 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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