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Demonstrate   /dˈɛmənstrˌeɪt/   Listen
Demonstrate

verb
1.
Give an exhibition of to an interested audience.  Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show.  "We will demo the new software in Washington"
2.
Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.  Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show.  "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"  Antonym: disprove.
3.
Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes.  Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest.  "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication" , "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness"
4.
March in protest; take part in a demonstration.  Synonym: march.






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"Demonstrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... road, your Excellency. Will you kindly stop it!" the merchant would say; and Linforth would then proceed to demonstrate how extremely valuable to the people of Chiltistan a better ...
— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... allows himself any relaxation to speak of, except to demonstrate the truth of spiritualism. He does love to monkey with the supernatural, and he delights in getting hold of some skeptical friend and convincing him of the presence of spirits beyond a doubt. I've known him to ignore two cases of croup and one case of twins to attend a seance and help ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... buy me something elementary on these subjects, so he soon brought me "Euclid" and Bonnycastle's "Algebra," which were the books used in the schools at that time. Now I had got what I so long and earnestly desired. I asked Mr. Craw to hear me demonstrate a few problems in the first book of "Euclid," and then I continued the study alone with courage and assiduity, knowing I was on the right road. Before I began to read algebra I found it necessary to study arithmetic again, having forgotten much of it. I never was expert at addition, ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville

... technical and financial limits; its scope confined to the requirements of war. Civil aviation, on the other hand, opens out a prospect of productive expansion. The steady growth of the Continental services is already beginning to demonstrate ...
— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

... an exact correspondence between this phenomenon and that exhibited by metals under similar conditions. I give here two sets of records (figs. 80, 81), one obtained with platinum and the other with tin, which demonstrate how the response is enhanced after continuous stimulation in a manner exactly similar to that noticed in the ...
— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose


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