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Representation vs Display - What's the difference?

representation | display |

As nouns the difference between representation and display

is that representation is that which represents another while display is a show or spectacle.

As a verb display is

to spread out, to unfurl.

representation

English

(wikipedia representation)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which represents another.
  • (legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
  • (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
  • (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
  • A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
  • A theatrical performance.

    • Quotations

    * 1637 , , final sentence *: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
    Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
    H. Lawes.d

    Related terms

    * represent * representable * representamen * representant

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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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