Display vs Decoration - What's the difference?
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(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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, 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
The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
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Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
As nouns the difference between display and decoration
is that display is a show or spectacle while decoration is the act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.As a verb display
is to spread out, to unfurl.display
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(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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- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.