display

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To present to view; cause to be seen. synonym: show.
• intransitive verb To exhibit ostentatiously; show off.
• intransitive verb To show (images or information) on a screen.
• intransitive verb To be or give evidence of; manifest or reveal.
• intransitive verb To spread out; unfurl.
• intransitive verb To position (a protein, for example) on the surface of a biological entity such as a virus.
• intransitive verb Zoology To exhibit a behavioral display.
• noun The act of displaying.
• noun Ostentatious exhibition.
• noun A public exhibition.
• noun Objects or merchandise set out for viewing by the public.
• noun A demonstration or manifestation.
• noun Zoology 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.
• noun An instance of such behavior.
• noun An advertisement or headline designed to catch the eye.
• noun A device, such as a television or computer monitor, that displays an image by converting a video signal into visible form.
• noun Biochemistry An in vitro method by which genetically engineered proteins are placed on the surface of a biological entity (such as a bacteriophage, yeast, or ribosome) so that the properties of these proteins and those they bind to can be analyzed and manipulated for research purposes.
• idiom (on display) In public view; for all to see.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To unfold; lay open; spread out; expand; disclose, as in curving or dissecting a body.
• To show; expose to the view; exhibit to the eyes; especially, to show ostentatiously; parade flauntingly.
• To exhibit to the mind; make manifest or apparent; bring into notice: as, to display one's ignorance or folly.
• To discover; descry.
• 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.
• To lay anything open, as in carving or dissecting.
• To make a show or display.
• To make a great show of words; talk demonstratively.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun Synonyms Show, Parade, etc. See ostentation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
• noun Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
• noun (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.
• noun (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.
• noun (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.
• transitive verb To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
• transitive verb (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
• transitive verb To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
• transitive verb To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
• transitive verb (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
• transitive verb obsolete To discover; to descry.
• transitive verb (Computers) To output (results or data) in a visible manner on the screen of a monitor, CRT, or other device.
• intransitive verb To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A show or spectacle.
• noun computing An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
• verb obsolete To spread out, to unfurl.
• verb transitive : To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun behavior that makes your feelings public