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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)
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- A show of military force.
- 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.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
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)
- demonstration
Declension
Further reading
- “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
demonstration From the web:
- what demonstration mean
- what demonstration is given to show diffusion
- what demonstrations are in london today
- what demonstration method
- what demonstration is going on in london today
- what demonstrations are happening in london today
- what does demonstration mean
- what is an example of demonstration
characterize
English
Alternative forms
- characterise
Etymology
From Medieval Latin characterizare, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kharakt?ríz?, “to designate by a characteristic mark”), from ???????? (kharakt?r, “a mark, character”). Synchronically analyzable as character +? -ize.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k???kt??a?z/, /?kæ??kt??a?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??kt??a?z/
- Hyphenation: char?ac?ter?ize
Verb
characterize (third-person singular simple present characterizes, present participle characterizing, simple past and past participle characterized)
- (transitive) To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).
- (transitive) To be typical of.
- (transitive) To determine the characteristics of.
Derived terms
- characterization
- subcharacterize
Translations
Further reading
- characterize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- characterize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
characterize From the web:
- what characterizes static stretching
- what characterizes tempera paintings
- what characterized the actions of the first triumvirate
- what characterizes a partisan speech
- what characterizes developing economies
- what characterizes a republic as a form of government
- what characterizes healthy body composition
- what characterized roman architecture
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