Display vs Cpi - What's the difference?
display | cpi | initialism |
(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
(obsolete) To discover; to descry.
* Chapman
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As a noun display
is a show or spectacle.As a verb display
is to spread out, to unfurl.As an initialism CPI is
consumer Price Index.display
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* characters * CRT * cursor * digits * graphics * monitor * screen * VDUVerb
(en verb)- 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 [...].
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.}}
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, […].}}
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- (Farrow)
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.