Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to display
Participle: displayed
Gerund: displaying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | display |
| you | display |
| he;she;it | displays |
| we | display |
| you | display |
| they | display |
Perfect
| I | have displayed |
| you | have displayed |
| he;she;it | has displayed |
| we | have displayed |
| you | have displayed |
| they | have displayed |
Past
| I | displayed |
| you | displayed |
| he;she;it | displayed |
| we | displayed |
| you | displayed |
| they | displayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had displayed |
| you | had displayed |
| he;she;it | had displayed |
| we | had displayed |
| you | had displayed |
| they | had displayed |
Future
| I | will display |
| you | will display |
| he;she;it | will display |
| we | will display |
| you | will display |
| they | will display |
Future Perfect
| I | will have displayed |
| you | will have displayed |
| he;she;it | will have displayed |
| we | will have displayed |
| you | will have displayed |
| they | will have displayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | display |
| you | display |
| he;she;it | display |
| we | display |
| you | display |
| they | display |
Perfect
| I | have displayed |
| you | have displayed |
| he;she;it | have displayed |
| we | have displayed |
| you | have displayed |
| they | have displayed |
Imperfect
| I | displayed |
| you | displayed |
| he;she;it | displayed |
| we | displayed |
| you | displayed |
| they | displayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had displayed |
| you | had displayed |
| he;she;it | had displayed |
| we | had displayed |
| you | had displayed |
| they | had displayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would display |
| you | would display |
| he;she;it | would display |
| we | would display |
| you | would display |
| they | would display |
Perfect
| I | would have displayed |
| you | would have displayed |
| he;she;it | would have displayed |
| we | would have displayed |
| you | would have displayed |
| they | would have displayed |
Imperative
| you | display |
| we | Let's display |
| you | display |
Verbs conjugated like 'display'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'display'
displat,
misplay,
codisplay,
cosplay,
disally,
dismay,
displace,
displant,
disple,
disray,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- exhibit
- demonstrate, publicize, evince, manifest, show
- expose
- unveil, betray, unmask, bare, reveal, disclose, uncover
- unfold
- unfurl, spread, unroll
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1292, from O.Fr.
despleier "unfold, spread out," from L.
displicare "to scatter," from
dis- "un-, apart" +
plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)). Properly of sails or flags (and unconnected to
play), meaning of "reveal, exhibit" is c.1380.
2. From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy. See: Middle English '
displayen', Old French '
despleier'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place. He had invented a machine for the cleaning of the hemp, which, considering the education and circumstances of the inventor, displayed quite as much mechanical genius as Whitney's cotton-gin.[1 ]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] hitherto stinted in their growth, rapidly developed themselves; and during the four months of health which she enjoyed, she appears (making due allowance for a fond mother 's account ) to have displayed a considerable degree of intelligence.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the Mills and of those who work in them; that they inculcate habits of self-denial and contentment, and teach good doctrines of enlarged benevolence. A strong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome village air; and though a circulating library is a favourable school for the study of such topics, it has [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Broadway again; gaining some refreshment from the heat, in the sight of the great blocks of clean ice which are being carried into shops and bar-rooms; and the pine-apples and water-melons profusely displayed for sale. Fine streets of spacious houses here, you see ! — Wall Street has furnished and dismantled many of them very often—and here a deep green leafy square. Be sure that is a hospitable house [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] beautifully. He had laid out the few feet of ground, behind, with exquisite neatness, and had made a little bed in the centre, that looked, by-the-bye, like a grave. The taste and ingenuity he had displayed in everything were most extraordinary; and yet a more dejected, heart-broken, wretched creature, it would be difficult to imagine. I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] these are often the most intolerable and the most insufferable companions. United to every disagreeable characteristic that the worst kind of American travellers possess, these countrymen of ours display an amount of insolent conceit and cool assumption of superiority, quite monstrous to behold. In the coarse familiarity of their approach, and the effrontery of their inquisitiveness (which they are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Christened ‘The Little Rifle, ’ and displayed outside a shop-window, it would make the fortune of any retail business in Holborn. When he had shown himself and talked a little while, he withdrew with his pocket-instrument, and went bobbing [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] humour; tied a handkerchief round her head; and came out into the little gallery with the rest. Then, such an oracle as she became in reference to the localities ! and such facetiousness as was displayed by the married ladies ! and such sympathy as was shown by the single ones ! and such peals of laughter as the little woman herself (who would just as soon have cried ) greeted every jest with !
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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It was a bare, unfurnished, comfortless room, with an unframed portrait hanging up at the head of the bed; a likeness, I take it, of the Doctor, for the forehead was fully displayed, and great stress was laid by the artist upon its phrenological developments. The bed itself was covered with an old patch-work counterpane. The room was destitute of carpet or of curtain. There [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] The room was destitute of carpet or of curtain. There was a damp fireplace without any stove, full of wood ashes; a chair, and a very small table; and on the last-named piece of furniture was displayed, in grand array, the doctor 's library, consisting of some half-dozen greasy old books.
(American Notes for General Circulation)