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demonstration

English

Etymology

From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (show or explain), from de- (of or concerning) + monstrare (show).Morphologically demonstrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?m?n?st?e???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)

  1. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
    1. (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
  2. An event at which something will be demonstrated.
    I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  3. Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
  4. A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
  5. A show of military force.
  6. A mathematical proof.
    • a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
      He read the proposition. [] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

Related terms

  • demonstrable
  • demonstrate
  • demonstrator
  • monster
  • remonstration
  • demo

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ?????????? (demonsutor?shon)

Translations

Anagrams

  • nonmeditators

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?dem?nsd????o?n/

Noun

demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)

  1. demonstration

Declension

Further reading

  • “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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assign

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assign?, from ad- + sign? (mark, sign).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??sa?n/
  • Hyphenation: as?sign
  • Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

assign (third-person singular simple present assigns, present participle assigning, simple past and past participle assigned)

  1. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  2. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  3. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle [] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  4. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  5. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  6. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.

Synonyms

  • (set apart something for some purpose): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
  • (transfer property): consign, convey; see also Thesaurus:transfer

Derived terms

  • assignment
  • assignable
  • assignation

Translations

Noun

assign (plural assigns)

  1. An assignee.
  2. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
  3. (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
  4. (obsolete) A design or purpose.

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