public display
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpublicanddisplay
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public
adjective
uk/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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display
noun
uk/dɪˈspleɪ/us/dɪˈspleɪ/
a collection of objects or pictures arranged for people to look at, or a performance or show for people ...
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(Definition ofpublicanddisplayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpublic display
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English royal practice, in general, had been for less rather than morepublicdisplay.
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An additional factor is that two tortoises from the 1951 batch have survived, and both have recently been put onpublicdisplay.
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Thepublicdisplayof royal authority was selective and swift.
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In other words, volunteer militias are unlike gangs in that they are organized nor for violence but forpublicdisplayof their potential for violence.
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The polls serve 'aspublicdisplayof the magazine's success in forging a community out of its disparate consumers'.
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The military and imperialist virtues were paramount; musical and dramatic abilities were, at worst, scandalous if put onpublicdisplay.
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Formal bedding is practiced, texts suggest, only by those who aim forpublicdisplay; similarly, forcing and indoors cultivation is beloved by the professional alone.
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Urbanites learned of the new products and goods available to them through print media, marketing spectacles, like raffles, and other forms of eye-catchingpublicdisplay.
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There does seem little doubt that the occasion was used as an opportunity for thepublicdisplayof blackshirt efficiency at dealing with the reds.
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An act of tribute, thepublicdisplaywas also a display of defiance toward the regime.
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These registers, apublicdisplayof the generosity of the participants, also shed light on the social topography of this evolving public sphere.
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Birth became less important as a determinator of rank than thepublicdisplayof polite behaviour.
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Permanent messages, as on domestic items, clothes, labels, and so on, are not forpublicdisplay, but perhaps continue to assure the user of the object's quality.
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Alms were collected at church services, and the bread purchased thereby was certainly disbursed at the church door, a verypublicdisplayof charity, hierarchy and dependence.
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Select the correct foods, maintain the correct posture, master the correct teachings, cultivate the correct faith, use the correct words and characters (moji), and put these accomplishments onpublicdisplay.
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For example, the cadenza, traditionally a site forpublicdisplay, is constructed in this work as a very private space, while the finale presents a public face featuring relentless virtuosity.
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Corder, by contrast, is treated much less kindly; in his case, melodramatic convention highlights and even exaggerates details from his private life by making it grist forpublicdisplay.
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