different between demo vs exhibition

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m.o?/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Etymology 1

Clipping of demonstration and various other words beginning with "demo-".

Noun

demo (plural demos)

1. (informal) A demonstration or visual explanation.
2. (informal) A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.

3. (informal) An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.

   Synonym: floor model

4. (informal) A march or gathering to make a political protest.

   Synonyms: march, demonstration

   • 2007, Indra Sinha, Animal's People, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN)

     Elli standing there, takes a sip of her tea, fixes hostile eyes on Somraj and says, ‘Well, what are you waiting for? You signed the petition against yourself, will you now join our demo against you?’

5. (computing, informal) An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.

6. (computing, demoscene, informal) A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
   • 1996, "John Bus", Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party! (on newsgroup alt.sys.amiga.demos)

     This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you.

   • 2007, Game Face (issues 21-25)

     Though the idea of procedural textures has been around for years, they have primarily been exploited by the demo scene, made famous by impressive demos like kkrieger, and haven't hit it big in the game industry yet […]

   • 2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

     A very successful PC demo from 1993, Second Reality from Future Crew […]

7. (informal) A democrat.
8. (informal, collective) A demographic group.
   • 2005, Market Watch (page 41)

     Our target demo is sports-minded families, and a good part of our clientele is moms who are with dad and the kids.
9. (informal) Demolition.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of demonstrate.

Verb

demo (third-person singular simple present demos, present participle demoing, simple past and past participle demoed)

1. (informal) To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.

   The band demoed thirty songs. Their manager thought that ten of the songs would make a good record.

2. (informal) To demonstrate.

Etymology 3

Clipping of demolish.

Verb

demo (third-person singular simple present demos, present participle demoing, simple past and past participle demoed)

1. (informal) To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
   • 2004 June 29, Sonja, Salvage Materials before Demolition of House, quoted in The Owner-Builder Book: Construction Bargain Strategies ?ISBN, page 336:

     This means we are going to demo the house to the dirt, or hopefully leave one wall standing.

Anagrams

• E.D. Mo., Edom, Medo-, dome, mode

Finnish

(index d)

Etymology

Borrowed from English demo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?demo/, [?de?mo?]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: de?mo

Noun

demo

1. demo (brief demonstration)

Declension

Derived terms

• demoskene

Anagrams

• Edmo, mode

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese demõ (“demon; devil”), from Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “god, goddess, divine power”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.mo?/

Noun

demo m (plural demos)

1. devil; demon

   Synonyms: diabo, diaño

2. (uncountable) the Devil
3. (figuratively) an evil person

4. (figuratively) a playful kid

References

• “demo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “demo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “demo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “demo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “demo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Noun

demo m (plural demi)

1. demo
2. deme

Anagrams

• mode

Japanese

Romanization

demo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de?.mo?/, [?d?e?mo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mo/, [?d???m?]

Etymology 1

From d?- (“from, away from, out of”) +? em? (“I acquire, I obtain”).

Verb

d?m? (present infinitive d?mere, perfect active d?mps?, supine d?mptum); third conjugation

1. I remove, take away, or subtract

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dempti?
• v?nd?mia

Descendants

• Asturian: demer, dimir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

d?m?

1. dative singular of d?mos
2. ablative singular of d?mos

References

• demo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• demo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• demo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• demo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[3]
• demo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “god, goddess, divine power”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de.mo/

Noun

demo m (plural demões)

1. (uncountable, Christianity) the Devil; Satan

   • E?ta é de como ?anta maria fez cobrar a Theophilo a carta que fezera cono demo u ?e tornou ?eu va??alo.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary recovered for Theophilos the contract he had made with the Devil and became his vassal.

2. a devil; a demon

   • e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q? a leuarõ. mui to?te ?? tardar

     and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay

Synonyms

• (Satan): diabo, Locifer, satanas
• (devil): demonio, diablo, diaboo, diabre

Descendants

• Galician: demo
• Portuguese: demo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de.mu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?de.mo/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese demo (“demon; devil”), from Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “god, goddess, divine power”).

Noun

demo m (plural demos)

1. devil; demon

   Synonyms: capeta, demónio, diabo, diabrete

Etymology 2

From English demo, from demonstration.

Noun

demo m (plural demos)

1. (computing) demo (a software edition of limited functionality)

Adjective

demo (plural demos, not comparable)

1. (computing, of a software) of limited functionality

Spanish

Noun

demo m (plural demos)

1. (music) demo

English

Etymology

From Old French exhibicion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks??b???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

exhibition (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitions)

1. An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
2. A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

   a boat exhibition

3. A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shamfeul exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
4. (Britain) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 352:

     He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

   • 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:

     Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.

5. (sports) A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

Derived terms

• exhibitionism
• exhibitionist
• make an exhibition of oneself
• Exhibition Road

Related terms

• exposition

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhibiti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zi.bi.sj??/

Noun

exhibition f (plural exhibitions)

1. (sports) exhibition, friendly
2. (document) presentation, production
3. showing off, outrageous behaviour

Derived terms

• match d'exhibition
• exhibitionnisme
• exhibitionniste

Further reading

• “exhibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).