different between demo vs review

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

Alternative forms

• re-view (rare for noun, obsolete for verb)

Etymology

From Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveüe, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveü, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revide?, from re- +vide? (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- +? view. Compare retrospect. Doublet of revue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

review (plural reviews)

1. A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.

2. An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
   • 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ?ISBN, page 54.

     The more strongly people felt about their ideas, the more potent the demons seemed to them: Christians believed that traditional paganism, far from being the work of men, was an 'opium of the masses', pumped into the human race by the non-human demons; and one scholar even ascribed bad reviews of his book to demonic inspiration!

3. (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

4. A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.

   Synonym: revue

5. A survey of the available items or material.

6. A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.

7. A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.

8. A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.

Derived terms

• board of review
• capsule review
• judicial review

Translations

Verb

review (third-person singular simple present reviews, present participle reviewing, simple past and past participle reviewed)

1. To survey; to look broadly over.

2. To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
3. To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
4. (transitive, US, Canada) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
5. (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
   • 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, act IV, scene iv, in The Works of Mr. William Shake?pear; in Eight Volumes, volume II (1709), page 954:

     Cam[illo]   What I do next, ?hall be next to tell the King // Of this E?cape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ?hall ?o prevail, // To force him after: in who?e company // I ?hall review Sicilia; for who?e ?ight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.

6. (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer (author), Odyssey, book III, lines 127–128, in The Ody??ey of Homer, volume I (1760), page 113:

     Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review, // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?

Translations

See also

Related terms

• reviewer
• reviewability
• medireview
• rereview

See also

• retrospect
• revise (v.)

Anagrams

• viewer