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Display vs Demo - What's the difference?

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In computing terms the difference between display and demo

is that display is an electronic screen that shows graphics or text while demo is an edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.

As nouns the difference between display and demo

is that display is a show or spectacle while demo is a demonstration or visual explanation.

As verbs the difference between display and demo

is that display is to spread out, to unfurl while demo is to record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.

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.

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    demo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A demonstration or visual explanation.
  • A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
    • After hearing the demo the record label approved funding to record the song with a full band.
  • an example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount
  • a march or gathering to make a political protest
  • (computing) An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
  • (computing, demoscene) a non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine (see demoscene)
  • * 2007 , Game Face (issues 21-25)
    • Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet
  • * 2008 , Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1
    • A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew
  • Democrat.
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  • Demolition.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
    • The band demoed thirty songs. Their manager thought that ten of the songs would make a good record.
  • To demonstrate.

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