demonstration
part of speech
noun (a demonstration, demonstrations)
meaning for a pupil
1) A demonstration is showing people how to do something or how something works. tree →
2) A demonstration is a public event where people march or gather to show what they think about something. tree →
3) A demonstration is a way of showing a feeling or quality: a demonstration of love. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, the teacher gives a demonstration of an experiment before pupils try it. In citizenship lessons, people have the right to hold peaceful demonstrations, also called protests. Phrases: give a demonstration, do a demonstration, a peaceful demonstration.
examples
- "Its form is simple and grave; there is nothing like a demonstration nor an argument; but it consists rather of a series of aphorisms, regularly grouped, and which have all the conciseness of the most ancient oracles." (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The teacher gave a demonstration of how a volcano erupts. tree →
- Watch the demonstration before you try. tree →
- The chef did a cooking demonstration. tree →
- Thousands of people joined the demonstration in the city. tree →
- The demonstration was peaceful. tree →
- The firefighter gave a demonstration of how to use the extinguisher. tree →
note
Countable noun. Verb: demonstrate; short form: demo. A protest and a demonstration are similar; a demonstration may also just show how something works. Spelling: de-mon-stra-tion.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «demonstration» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.