Assert and Display

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• Something intended to communicate a particular impression.
  • usage: "made a display of strength"; "a show of impatience"; "a good show of looking interested"
  • synonyms: show
• Something shown to the public.
  • usage: "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art"
  • synonyms: exhibit, showing
• A visual representation of something.
  • synonyms: presentation
• Behavior that makes your feelings public.
  • usage: "a display of emotion"
• Exhibiting openly in public view.
  • usage: "a display of courage"
• An electronic device that represents information in visual form.
  • synonyms: video display

verb

• To show, make visible or apparent.
  • usage: "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
  • synonyms: expose, exhibit
• Attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals. .

• (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 unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
• (v.t.) To discover; to descry.
• (v.t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
• (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.
• (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.

(DoD) In military deception, a static portrayal of an activity, force, or equipment intended to deceive the adversary's visual observation.