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displaying

Syllables: dis·play·ing/dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/

displaying is the present participle and gerund of display.

Meaning of display

Verb

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

  1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
    • All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
    • Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
    • The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court...
  4. (dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
    • And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
  6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
    • 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 [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    splay

See all 11 meanings of display

Noun

displaying (countable and uncountable, plural displayings)

  1. The process by which something is displayed; a showing.

Forms of displaying

pluraldisplayings

Words that rhyme with displaying

Questions about displaying

What does displaying mean?
Displaying means the process by which something is displayed; a showing.
What is displaying the present participle and gerund of?
Displaying is the present participle and gerund of display.
What part of speech is displaying?
Displaying is a noun.
How do you pronounce displaying?
Displaying is pronounced /dɪsˈpleɪ.ɪŋ/.
What is the plural of displaying?
The plural of displaying is displayings.

Words near displaying in the dictionary

  1. displayable
  2. displayed
  3. displayedness
  4. displayer
  5. displayers
  6. displaying
  7. displayings
  8. displays
  9. displaywide
  10. disple
  11. displeas'd

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