What's the difference between display and extravaganza?

Display


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
  • (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
  • (v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
  • (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
  • (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
  • (v. t.) To discover; to descry.
  • (v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
  • (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
  • (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (2) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (4) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (5) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (6) IIA4 displayed 94% amino acid similarity with IIA3 and IIA3v.
  • (7) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
  • (8) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
  • (9) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
  • (11) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
  • (12) Each of the phospholipid classes displayed a distinctive fatty acid pattern which was the same in all fractions and in whole platelets.
  • (13) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (14) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
  • (15) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (16) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
  • (17) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
  • (18) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
  • (19) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
  • (20) After 40 days of adaptation to serum-free medium, these cells displayed growth, morphology, and expression of CD4 similar to serum-supplemented cultures.

Extravaganza


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
  • (n.) An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
  • (2) The Silvio Berlusconi extravaganza is back in town.
  • (3) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.
  • (4) The International Olympic Committee – Fifa's comrade in the global 1% – has demonstrated that it's entirely possible to throw a sport extravaganza and still pay taxes.
  • (5) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
  • (6) The red carpet part of the proceedings was quite unlike similar extravaganzas at film festivals: you go through a covered walkway into the separate, enclosed red-carpeted area bounded on either side by bleachers, seated terraces filled with paying-public onlookers who are continuously screaming with excitement, as the stars parade forward in lanes, like livestock.
  • (7) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
  • (8) Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Facebook Twitter Pinterest The title of this psychedelic road trip extravaganza gives a good idea of the drug-fuelled adventures to come.
  • (9) On Saturday night he is on the undercard of a Floyd Mayweather pay-per-view extravaganza in boxing's capital city and, if he beats the very good young Mexican Pablo César Cano, his mentor has promised him he will do everything he can to get him a world title shot at welterweight, a hot division.
  • (10) African presidents were among 100 guests at the extravaganza, which cost an estimated $4m (£2.5m).
  • (11) During the summer, Ghent hosts a wide range of festivals, including the 10-day multi-arts extravaganza Gentse Feesten .
  • (12) The best World Cups offer a kaleidoscope of images and this brilliantly-staged oval-ball extravaganza outdid anything the game has seen.
  • (13) Dozens of journalists – from Le Monde in France to Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan – will be part of an international media extravaganza never before seen in an African court.
  • (14) Also not out until September is Eleanor Catton's highly wrought astrological extravaganza about a woman on trial for murder during the 19th-century New Zealand goldrush, eagerly awaited by fans of her equally dazzling debut The Rehearsal.
  • (15) "We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you, with people organising block-by-block, talking to neighbours, co-workers, and friends.
  • (16) The 1979 tour was a tightly choreographed, physically-demanding extravaganza that left the 20-year-old Bush "wiped out": it's hard to imagine her attempting anything equivalent at 55.
  • (17) Most significantly, there is the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia (fast becoming a serious rival to Austin's annual psych extravaganza ).
  • (18) Cue a costly whizz-bang extravaganza of CG-powered set pieces foreshadowed with the odd slab of mealy cod philosophy.
  • (19) From Hogmanay onwards, Scotland's arts festivals and tourist industry, championed by Alex Salmond's nationalist government, will host the second "year of Homecoming", a year-long mood-lifting marketing extravaganza involving hundreds of arts, culture and tourism events.
  • (20) And the last thing it wants to say is that we were the guilty ones.” However, a bitter public row over a Mao-themed extravaganza held in Beijing earlier this month has unexpectedly thrust the decade-long upheaval back into the headlines.

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