Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To show clearly and deliberately; manifest.
- intransitive verb To show to be true by reasoning or adducing evidence; prove.
- intransitive verb To present by experiments, examples, or practical application; explain and illustrate.
- intransitive verb To show the use of (an article) to a prospective buyer.
- intransitive verb To give a demonstration.
- intransitive verb To participate in a public display of opinion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To point out; indicate; make evident; exhibit.
- Specifically To exhibit, describe, and explain, as the parts of a dissected body; teach by the ocular use of examples, as a physical science, especially anatomy or any of its principles.
- To establish the truth of; fully establish by arguments; adduce convincing reasons for belief in, as a proposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb (Anat.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
display the method of using an object. - verb To
show the steps taken to create a logical argument orequation . - verb To participate in or organize a
demonstration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- verb march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- verb give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- verb provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Now, if Judge Douglas will demonstrate somehow that this is popular sovereignty, the right of one man to make a slave of another, without any right in that other, or anyone else to object, demonstrate it as Euclid demonstrated propositions, there is no objection.
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A glance at some of the Court's business cases this term demonstrate the important role it can play in protecting business from improvident regulation.
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The simply meanness of that they demonstrate is sad if he decided to run as an independent all the power to him.
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This definition of FTA, as Dr. Heddle goes on to demonstrate, is on more firm ground.
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On the other hand, I'd miss all the joy of leaping for the sky that Jackie and Kristin demonstrate so well.
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The only thing this project would demonstrate is that HSR is a lousy investment.
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What we have tried to demonstrate is that individually each assumption on its own is not likely.
Howard F. Jeter: Nigeria on the Brink: A Rejoinder Howard F. Jeter 2010
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One thing that even this initial section of The Early Stories begins to demonstrate is the price to be paid by a writer determined to survive simply as a writer, to have a "career" in fiction writing and not to either martyr himself in his poverty or take up a supporting career as professor or editor.
Updike, John 2010
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What we have tried to demonstrate is that individually each assumption on its own is not likely.
Howard F. Jeter: Nigeria on the Brink: A Rejoinder Howard F. Jeter 2010
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All the driver must demonstrate is that he is here legally.
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