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Displayed vs Subtitled - What's the difference?

displayed | subtitled |

As adjectives the difference between displayed and subtitled

is that displayed is spread out; unfurled while subtitled is in which the dialogue is translated into another language, and displayed, in text, at the bottom of the screen.

As a verb displayed

is past tense of display.

displayed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (display)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spread out; unfurled.
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 11:
    • They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.
  • Spread open to view; shown off.
  • (heraldry) With wings unfurled.
  • (typography) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.

    • subtitled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a film) in which the dialogue is translated into another language, and displayed, in text, at the bottom of the screen.

    • See also

    * dubbed