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Display vs Statement - What's the difference?

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In computing|lang=en terms the difference between display and statement

is that display is (computing) an electronic screen that shows graphics or text while statement is (computing) an instruction in a computer program.

In lang=en terms the difference between display and statement

is that display is to make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration while statement is to provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the uk a statement of special educational needs.

As nouns the difference between display and statement

is that display is a show or spectacle while statement is a declaration or remark.

As verbs the difference between display and statement

is that display is (obsolete) to spread out, to unfurl while statement is to provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the uk a statement of special educational needs.

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.

    statement

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A declaration or remark.
  • A presentation of opinion or position.
  • (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
  • a bank statement
  • (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * environmental impact statement * fashion statement * financial statement * impact statement * mission statement * statemental * victim impact statement * vision statement

    Etymology 2

    and statemented

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
  • See also

    * (projectlink)

    Anagrams

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