Display
Display verb - To present so as to invite notice or attention.
Mean and display are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead a verb "Display".
Nearby Words: displayed, displaying
Mean
Mean verb - To communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind.
How words are described
| full | full display | full mean |
| best | best display | best mean |
| common | common display | common mean |
| standard | standard display | standard mean |
| Other adjectives: vulgar, obvious, brutal, actual, real, big, huge, main, animated, permanent, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Even worse, your display was witnessed and the only thing that everyone saw was you being mean to him!
Source: Made Out to Be a Jerkass - There's also the worst case of ship tease is Hancock with Luffy, who constantly takes what Luffy's saying to mean something else after his ridiculous display of MANLY and falling in love with him.
Source: Ship Tease / Anime and Manga -
The skill you display, the form
how the light plays on its muscles
I mean, yes.
Source: Freudian Slip
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