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Subject:RE: Silly but important to me From:Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- aps -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:50:33 -0700
Someone wrote:
"Pray tell, then: What is the screen displaying? Its
polka-dot underpants, perhaps?
If it's displaying, then it must be displaying
SOMETHING; there must be a direct object. "Display" is
a transitive verb, folks.
-Beantown TW"
The verb form of display has added an intransitive forms as per:
From:
Dictionary.com
Source: The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright (c) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
dis*play ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-spl)
v. dis*played, dis*play*ing, dis*plays
v. tr.
To present or hold up to view.
Computer Science. To provide (information or graphics) on a screen.
To give evidence of; manifest.
To exhibit ostentatiously; show off.
To be endowed with (an identifiable form or character): a shrub that
displays hardiness.
To express, as by gestures or bodily posture: a smirk that displayed
contempt.
To spread out; unfurl: The peacock displayed its fan.
v. intr.
Computer Science. To provide information or graphics on a screen: a
personal computer that displays and prints.
Rose A. Wilcox
Center for Process Excellence, CHQ 8th Floor
602-250-3195
Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- aps -dot- com
Wesley: Don't you think it's a bit unseemly adding y's to the ends of
people's names?
Gunn: Does that mean I have to call you "Westle"?
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