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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
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halfpenny
English
Alternative forms
- (with the first element, half, preserved) halfepenny, halfepeny, halfepenie, halfepenye; halfpenny, halfpeny, halfpenie, halfpenye (all obsolete except halfpenny)
- (with the first element reduced to hal-, ha’, or ha-) halpeny, halpenye, hapeney, ha’penny, hapenny, happenny (all obsolete except ha’penny)
- (with the first element corrupted to haw-) hawpny (dialectal, obsolete)
- (pre-decimalisation abbreviation) ½d
Etymology
From the Middle English halpeni, either from the late-Old English halpenige or from half +? peni; equivalent to half +? penny and continually reinforced by that surface analysis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?he?p(?)ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??f?p?ni/ (spelling pronunciation)
Noun
halfpenny (plural halfpennies or halfpence)
- (plural: halfpennies) (historical) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- If you haven't got a penny, / A ha'penny will do, / If you haven't got a ha'penny, / Then God bless you.
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- (plural: halfpence) A quantity of money worth half a penny.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
- There were none principal; they were all like one another as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
halfpenny (not comparable)
- Costing or worth one halfpenny.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
- There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
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