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# demonstrate

verb (demonstrate, demonstrates, demonstrated, demonstrating)

«demonstrate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To demonstrate is to show how something works or how to do something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#m1)
2. To demonstrate is to prove or show clearly that something is true. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#m2)
3. To demonstrate is to show a feeling or quality by what you do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#m3)
4. To demonstrate is to march or gather with others in public to show you support or are against something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#m4)

### In the lessons

In school, teachers demonstrate experiments and pupils demonstrate their working in maths: «demonstrate that 12 is even». In the news, people demonstrate in the streets. Exam questions use it formally: «Demonstrate your answer with a diagram». Phrases: demonstrate how, demonstrate that, demonstrate against.

### Examples

- The teacher demonstrated how to light the Bunsen burner safely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x1)
- Can you demonstrate how the robot moves? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x2)
- This experiment demonstrates that air takes up space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x3)
- Show your working to demonstrate that your answer is correct. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x4)
- She demonstrated great courage when she rescued the puppy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x5)
- Thousands of people demonstrated against the new road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x6)
- The coach demonstrated the kick, then we tried it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x7)
- He would have shown his weapons and demonstrated how he used them, and with what slash he chipped his victim, and with what slice he chopped him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/#x8)

### Note

Forms: demonstrated, demonstrating. Nouns: demonstration (also «demo», informal), demonstrator. Stress: DEM-on-strate. In maths «demonstrate» means «prove or show clearly with working», not just give the answer.

## In Jewish tradition

In school, teachers demonstrate experiments and pupils demonstrate their working in maths: «demonstrate that 12 is even». In the news, people demonstrate in the streets. Exam questions use it formally: «Demonstrate your answer with a diagram». Phrases: demonstrate how, demonstrate that, demonstrate against.

### Examples

- It was he who demonstrated that m.T is the true God and no other. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/demonstrate/#x1)
- twenty-two letters, the Sefer Yetzirah demonstrates by permu- tations in whicli letters never repeat themselves but only change their places. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/demonstrate/#x2)
- As al- ready demonstrated, the lirst alphabet invented was similar to that still used by the Berbers, whence the inference, that there may have been a time when the Hebrews also used such an alphabet. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/demonstrate/#x3)

### Note

Forms: demonstrated, demonstrating. Nouns: demonstration (also «demo», informal), demonstrator. Stress: DEM-on-strate. In maths «demonstrate» means «prove or show clearly with working», not just give the answer.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «demonstrate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstrate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«demonstrate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/demonstrate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «demonstrate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/demonstrate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«demonstrate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/demonstrate.html) on Mova free.