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DEMONSTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
Example:
he gave the customer a demonstration
Synonyms:
demonstration; presentation; presentment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("demonstration" is a kind of...):
show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demonstration"):
exhibition (the act of exhibiting)
exposure (presentation to view in an open or public manner)
performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)
lecture demonstration (presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about)
counterdemonstration (a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration)
Derivation:
demonstrate (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A show of military force or preparedness
Example:
he confused the enemy with feints and demonstrations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("demonstration" is a kind of...):
show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
Example:
there were violent demonstrations against the war
Synonyms:
demonstration; manifestation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("demonstration" is a kind of...):
dissent; objection; protest (the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent)
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demonstration"):
work-in (occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory)
protest march (occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license)
Instance hyponyms:
Boston Tea Party (demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea)
Derivation:
demonstrate (march in protest; take part in a demonstration)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion
Synonyms:
demonstration; monstrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("demonstration" is a kind of...):
proof (a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A visual presentation showing how something works
Example:
the lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response
Synonyms:
demo; demonstration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("demonstration" is a kind of...):
visual communication (communication that relies on vision)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demonstration"):
display; show (something intended to communicate a particular impression)
expression; manifestation; reflection; reflexion (expression without words)
exemplification; illustration (showing by example)
Derivation:
demonstrate (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)
Context examples:
In Situ Hybridization staining is an immunohistochemistry staining procedure which allows the demonstration of specific nucleic acid sequences (genes) in their cellular environment.
(In Situ Hybridization Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
Prussian blue stain is used for the demonstration of ferric iron in the tissue sections.
(Iron Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
“Here it is on the stone of the stair also. The demonstration is complete. Let us stay here until a train stops.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I mean, my dear Summerlee, to give you such a demonstration of its powers that after seeing it you will, I am sure, have no hesitation in trusting yourself to it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It is the first demonstration of depositing the drug-delivering fibres directly onto a wound site safely,” said Lane Huston, author of the study.
(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That was adding insult to injury, it was altogether too much, and making some wild demonstration with her hands, Jo vanished without a word.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
AHRQ uses mechanisms of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to carry out research projects, demonstrations, evaluations, and knowledge dissemination.
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCI Thesaurus)
The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two chips after a quantum measurement is performed.
(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He made a curious grimace—one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations—threw down his cue and followed me from the room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
