different between illuminate vs demonstration

English

Etymology

From Middle English illuminaten, borrowed from Latin ill?min?tum, supine of ill?min? (“lighten, light up, show off”), from in + l?min? (“light up”), from l?men (“light”). Cognate with Old English l?man (“to glow, shine”). More at leam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l(j)um?ne?t/, /??l(j)um?ne?t/ (verb)
• (verb)
• IPA^(key): /??l(j)um?n?t/ (noun, adjective)

Verb

illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)

1. (transitive) To shine light on something.
2. (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To clarify or make something understandable.
4. (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To make spectacular.
6. (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
   • 1994, Sylvia Carlson, Verne Carlson, Professional Cameraman's Handbook ?ISBN, page 494:

     Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.

   • 2011/2012, "Spectrum", written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, performed by Florence and the Machine, released on the album Ceremonials (2011):

     Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining / […]

7. (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
8. (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.

Synonyms

• (shine light on something): belight, enlighten, illumine; See also Thesaurus:illuminate
• (decorate something with lights): See also Thesaurus:decorate
• (make something understandable): bring home, clarify, elucidate, explicitize, sort out, straighten out
• (decorate the page of a manuscript book): illustrate, quill; See also Thesaurus:decorate
• (to glow; to light up): gleam, illumine, shine; See also Thesaurus:shine

Derived terms

• transilluminate
• illuminator

Translations

Noun

illuminate (plural illuminates)

1. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Adjective

illuminate (comparative more illuminate, superlative most illuminate)

1. (obsolete) enlightened
   • February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite

     do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?

Interlingua

Participle

illuminate

1. past participle of illuminar

Italian

Adjective

illuminate f pl

1. feminine plural of illuminato

Verb

illuminate

1. second-person plural present of illuminare
2. second-person plural imperative of illuminare
3. feminine plural past participle of illuminare

Anagrams

• alluminite

Latin

Participle

ill?min?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ill?min?tus

References

• illuminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illuminate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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