Display
Display verb - To present so as to invite notice or attention.
Emit and display are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Emit" instead a verb "Display".
Nearby Words: displayed, displaying
Emit
Emit verb - To throw or give off.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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And your car won't display any visible damage, but will emit gradually increasing quantities of smoke and fire until it suddenly explodes at 0 hit points.
Source: Video Game / Fatal Racing - Eventually, enough checks on the spot will cause the glitch to mess around◊ with sprites◊, sometimes causing the game to display random sprite data◊ and/or emit what can best be described as Hell Is That Noise.
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Emit or Display. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/display/emit.
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