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Layout vs Display - What's the difference?

layout | display |

As nouns the difference between layout and display

is that layout is a structured arrangement of items within certain limits while display is a show or spectacle.

As a verb display is

to spread out, to unfurl.

layout

English

(wikipedia layout)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structured arrangement of items within certain s.
  • A plan for such arrangement.
  • The act of laying out something.
  • (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
  • (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
  • (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.

    • Related terms

    * lay out

    See also

    * keyboard layout *

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    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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