Display and Screen

Display

Display noun - A public showing of objects of interest.

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Screen and display are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Screen" instead a noun "Display".

Nearby Words: displayed, displaying

Screen noun - The display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube.

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Display and screen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Display" instead a noun "Screen".

Nearby Words: screened, screening, scree, screenful

full	full display	full screen
nice	nice display	nice screen
usual	usual display	usual screen
brief	brief display	brief screen
Other adjectives: complete, standard, original, simple, small, actual, entire, real, massive, large, big, huge, main, animated, giant, holographic, digital, electronic.

display sense

screen sense

In videogames this constraint is relaxed somewhat, since you can hardly display information outside of the monitor or TV screen (unless a second screen counts...).

Source: Heads-Up Display aka: HUD
After Bowser comes out of the Clown Car for the first time, however, the display suddenly drops down from the screen.

Source: Dramatic Disappearing Display
Played with in Advance 2 — it begins with no display just like in the original version, but the display drops down from the screen after Bowser appears.

Source: Video Game / Super Mario World

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