Portrait vs Display - What's the difference?
portrait | display |
A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
(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
As nouns the difference between portrait and display
is that portrait is while display is a show or spectacle.As a verb display is
(obsolete) to spread out, to unfurl.portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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, […].}}
- (Shakespeare)
- (Farrow)
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.