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display | sho |

As nouns the difference between display and sho

is that display is a show or spectacle while sho is a Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.

As a verb display

is to spread out, to unfurl.

As an adverb sho is

nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation.

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.

    sho

    English

    Etymology 1

    Phonetic Southern US dialectal spelling of sure.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US, dialect, South, African American Vernacular English) nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (sh?).

    Noun

    (wikipedia sho) (en noun)
  • A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun) Of modern scholarly coinage.
  • A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase .
  • Anagrams

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