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Display vs Correct - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between display and correct

is that display is to make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration while correct is to inform (someone) of the latter's error.

As verbs the difference between display and correct

is that display is (obsolete) to spread out, to unfurl while correct is to make something that was not valid become right to remove error.

As a noun display

is a show or spectacle.

As an adjective correct is

free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.

display

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A show or spectacle.
  • (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
  • See also

    * characters * CRT * cursor * digits * graphics * monitor * screen * VDU

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
  • * 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 [...].
  • To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
  • * , chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
  • (Farrow)
  • (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  • (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
  • * Chapman
  • And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

    correct

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  • Synonyms

    * (with good manners) well-mannered, well behaved

    Antonyms

    * (without error) incorrect, inaccurate * (with good manners) uncouth

    Derived terms

    * anatomically correct * correctly * hypercorrect * incorrect

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
  • He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
  • (by extension) To grade (examination papers).
  • To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
  • It's rude to correct your parents.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * correctable * correction * uncorrectable