Exposition vs Display - What's the difference?
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The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
The act of declaring]] or [[describe, describing something through either speech or writing.
(obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
(writing) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
(writing) An opening section in fiction, including novel, play, and movie, by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed.
(music) The opening section of a fugue; the opening section of a movement in sonata form
The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
* , chapter=12
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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
Exposition is a related term of display.
As nouns the difference between exposition and display
is that exposition is exposition (action of putting something out to public view) while display is a show or spectacle.As a verb display is
(obsolete) to spread out, to unfurl.exposition
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(wikipedia exposition)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* expositional * expositionarySee also
* explanation * exegesis ----display
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See also
* characters * CRT * cursor * digits * graphics * monitor * screen * VDUVerb
(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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- (Farrow)
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.