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demonstrator
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The forefinger. 2 One who carries out a demonstration. 3 An item, particularly a vehicle, used in demonstrations to a customer or user.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE angry ▪ When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators . ▪ Similar protests were held in other towns, where the party and regional authority's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "one who points out," agent noun in Latin form from demonstrate . From 1680s as "one who uses exhibits as a method of teaching;" 1870 as "one who participates in public demonstrations."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer [syn: sales demonstrator ] someone who participates in a public display of group feeling [syn: protester ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A demonstrator may be: A person performing a demonstration , such as to explain science or technology An attendee at a political rally A device or object used to perform a demonstration An academic rank A vehicle adapted to emergency service specification, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demonstrator \Dem"on*stra`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. d['e]monstrateur.] One who demonstrates; specif. one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence. one who shows how a certain device operates or a procedure is ...
Usage examples of demonstrator.
About two years ago, our Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals became possessed of the knowledge that it was still the practice in the schools of Anatomy and Physiology in France for lecturers and demonstrators to tie down cats, dogs, rabbits, etc.
The demonstrators, who foisted pamphlets on carloads of incoming tourists, belonged to Operation Rescue National, an antiabortion group that is branching out to combat homosexuality.
Our thirty or forty die-hard antismoking demonstrators were gone, replaced by something like two hundred angry and jittery-looking people holding signs that said things like choice!
We have a communist insurgency in the north with possible Burmese involvement, student demonstrators and rioters in Bangkok, and a military coup breaking out all over the country.
Ahead a crowd of demonstrators marched down the center of the road, jabbing signs into the air, shouting at the line of trucks and cars.
In Timisoara, a huge crowd gathered on Bulevardul 30 Decembrie, and demonstrators broke into Communist Party headquarters and began throwing portraits of the tyrant out of the windows.
Wednesday as Timorese security forces loyal to embattled President Gusmao fired on a crowd of more than two thousand demonstrators as they approached the government offices in central Kupang.
Russell gave of his all unstintingly and Julie, for her part, responded in a manner that only an ex-contortionist go-go dancing sex aid demonstrator truly can.
She knew that she and her partner would find no converts here, no demonstrators, no soldiers for the revolution the Engineers claimed was essential to save humanity for its true, mechanical destiny.
Up to a certain point I believe in set Lectures as excellent adjuncts to what is far more important, practical instruction at the bedside, in the operating room, and under the eye of the Demonstrator.
And on January eleventh, student demonstrators had been reclassified I-A, which had caused a real outrage in California.
Last September, for example, Tehran covertly supported a peaceful uprising against a communist power grab in Tajikistan, allegedly paying demonstrators 100 rubles a day to lead Moslem prayers and demand the resignation of the Tajik communist leadership.
Within a timeframe of ten hours there are over a dozen small clashes, involving demonstrators and troops, on both sides of the Berlin wall.
Demonstrators charged that the IMF had a plan to force Argentina to cut wages.
And, they hoped, for Chai Ling, the respected leader of the student movement, commander in chief of the Tiananmen demonstrators and a graduate student in psychology at Beijing Normal University.