What's the difference between display and placard?

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.

Placard


Definition:

  • (n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
  • (n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.
  • (n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
  • (n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.
  • (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
  • (v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
  • (v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palestinians with a placard reading ‘Yarmouk camp ... we need you to stop the barrel bombs’ demonstrate in a refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon.
  • (2) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
  • (3) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
  • (4) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
  • (5) The crowd was a sea of Zanu-PF green and yellow, chanting, punching the air and waving placards that said: "Man of the people."
  • (6) But perhaps their most provocative piece of electioneering was an A6 election card with a photo of Muslim extremists holding up a placard reading: "Behead those who insult Islam".
  • (7) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (8) He was like the man with staring eyes who stumbled up and down Oxford Street with a placard declaring the end of the world to be nigh.
  • (9) Workers at refineries and power stations in various parts of the UK walked out, some holding placards quoting the words of Gordon Brown: "British jobs for British workers".
  • (10) One man, a Republican delegate in Cleveland, carried a placard all week around the convention that read: “Ivanka 2024.
  • (11) Women’s protests against this have featured dancing, singing, miniskirts and placards proclaiming: “My body, my money, my closet, my rules.” Despite the repressive government, which has been responsible for homophobic as well as misogynistic new laws, grassroots resistance is growing .
  • (12) Migrants not welcome”, say their placards: “Go back to Africa”; “Keep off our worms.” Did a member of the public really see these banners and take offence?
  • (13) Chanting “God is greatest”, many in Friday’s protest waved placards calling for Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, to be jailed for blasphemy.
  • (14) There has been a heartening response to the Let Them Stay campaign ... Public opinion is beginning to shift and we think we will get Manus and Nauru closed.” Carrying “Free the refugees” placards and chanting “let them stay”, protesters gathered in Sydney’s Belmore Park before marching through the central business district.
  • (15) Organisers said a crowd of 35,000, carrying placards in the shape of bright red stop signs, gathered at the Washington monument on a bright but bitterly cold day for the march on the White House.
  • (16) Several waved placards and the Chinese flag and shouted "Defend the Diaoyu Islands" outside the Japanese consulate general in southern Guangzhou, Xinhua said.
  • (17) A lot of politicians are very aware of what’s looming, but they won’t dare say it.” On Saturday a campaign group called Youth Fight for Jobs took their tents and placards to Parliament Square in London to protest at what they said was a government “declaration of war on young people”.
  • (18) Representatives from the technology firms were identified around the table not by their names, but by placards listing their employers.
  • (19) The placards waiting on empty seats called out “Trump for Hindu Americans” and “Trump Great for India”.
  • (20) There are pictures of firefighters, policemen, soldiers and members of the public, some grinning and holding up placards celebrating Bin Laden's execution.

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