Demonstrate
['demənstreɪt] or ['dɛmən'stret]
Definition
(verb.) march in protest; take part in a demonstration; 'Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle'.
Edited by Ben--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
(v. t.) To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.
(v. t.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
Checker: Susie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Prove, establish, show, make evident.
Typist: Shelby
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, evince, illustrate, ANT: \r.\, Disprove, conceal,misdemonstrate-strafe, misexemplify
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Definition
v.t. to show or point out clearly: to prove with certainty.—adj. Demon′strable that may be demonstrated.—ns. Demon′strableness Demonstrabil′ity.—adv. Demon′strably.—ns. Demonstrā′tion a pointing out: proof beyond doubt: expression of the feelings by outward signs: expression of sympathy with political or social opinions with a man or body of men by a mass-meeting a procession &c.: show: a movement of troops or ships to exhibit military intention or in war to deceive the enemy.—adj. Demon′strative making evident: proving with certainty: of the nature of proof: given to the manifestation of one's feelings.—adv. Demon′stratively.—ns. Demon′strativeness; Dem′onstrator one who proves beyond doubt: one who teaches: (anat.) one who teaches anatomy from the dissected parts.—adj. Demon′stratory demonstrative.
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Examples
- It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But since I have had experiences which demonstrate that drunkenness is the same in my country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Edison has said that he never saw a statement in any book as to such things that he did not involuntarily challenge, and wish to demonstrate as either right or wrong. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The only people who did anything in electricity were the telegraphers and the opticians making simple school apparatus to demonstrate the principles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dr. Bankhead laid his giant hand on my bosom to demonstrate one of his former feats. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The tasimeter has been used to demonstrate heat from remote stars (suns), such as Arcturus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It required a peculiar effort of the mind, such as the imagining of eight different things moving simultaneously on a mental plane, without anything to demonstrate their efficiency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again, the experiments demonstrated that the force necessary to maintain at high velocity an apparatus consisting of planes and motors could be produced by means already available. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This accident demonstrated that some other method of connecting the armature with the driven axle should be arranged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Professor Bell had demonstrated that two people could talk to each other from connected telephones for a considerable distance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Newcomen and Watt had not then demonstrated that steam was not unconquerable, but the hitching it to the slow barge and the rapid car was yet to come. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- About 1841 the celebrated Needle Gun was invented in Prussia, and its superiority over all muzzle-loaders was demonstrated in 1848 in the first Schleswig-Holstein war. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Experiment demonstrates that a weight _W_ attached to a cogwheel of radius 3 can be raised by a force _P_, equal to one third of _W_ applied to a cogwheel of radius 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Now, I have had very little pleasure at our dear Richard's lately, and your practical sagacity demonstrates why. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Faraday demonstrates relation of chemical and electrical force. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Politics does not exist for the sake of demonstrating the superior righteousness of anybody. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Or so--like Lyons sausage,' said John Baptist, demonstrating the various cuts on the bread he held, and soberly chewing what he had in his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Edison's electric-light system and his broad claims were freely discussed and animadverted upon at the very time he was demonstrating their successful application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the perspective of history, no one feels that he has said the last word about a philosophy like Rousseau's after demonstrating its untruth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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