different between demonstration vs kamba

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

Icelandic

Noun

kamba

1. indefinite accusative plural of kambur
2. indefinite genitive plural of kambur

Malagasy

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili kamba (“rope”).

Noun

kamba

1. rope, fiber

Synonyms

• tady

Shona

Noun

kamba 5

1. (Manyika) Synonym of ingwe: leopard

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kamba (n class, plural kamba)

1. rope (thick, strong string)