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Displaced vs Displayed - What's the difference?

displaced | displayed |

As verbs the difference between displaced and displayed

is that displaced is past tense of displace while displayed is past tense of display.

As an adjective displayed is

spread out; unfurled.

displaced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (displace)

    • Derived terms

    * displaced person

    displace

    English

    Verb

    (displac)
  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    displayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (display)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spread out; unfurled.
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 11:
    • They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.
  • Spread open to view; shown off.
  • (heraldry) With wings unfurled.
  • (typography) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.