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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
demonstrate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an experiment shows/proves/demonstrates sth
▪ His experiment showed that lightning was a kind of electricity.
▪ The experiment proved that fabrics treated with the chemical are much less likely to catch fire.
demonstrate mastery of sth (=show mastery of something)
▪ During the talk, he demonstrated his mastery of the issues.
demonstrate/show competence
▪ Students have to demonstrate competence in maths and science.
illustrate/demonstrate a point
▪ A simple example will illustrate the point.
show/demonstrate commitment
▪ Throughout her life she demonstrated her deep commitment to the needs of the poor.
show/demonstrate the ability to do sth
▪ a chance for candidates to demonstrate their abilities
show/demonstrate your knowledge
▪ The test should be an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge.
show/express/demonstrate your solidarity (with sb)
▪ I come before you today to express my solidarity with the people of New York.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Over time action plans to remediate would also demonstrate commitment to minimise risk.
▪ In La Strada, Fellini and Rota also demonstrate the poetic power of film music.
▪ New Zealand stations also demonstrate the manner in which, through repeated renewal, station buildings mirror the development of the country.
▪ Unfortunately the maquila project also demonstrates that rarely could or did the government actually reorient the conditions of capitalist development.
▪ This also demonstrates the rehabilitation expenditure and incidence in North Side neighbourhoods and census tracts.
▪ But, Sakaida noted, he also demonstrated compassion for his opponents.
▪ We also demonstrate that, contrary to conventional thoughts, there is no evidence of compromise to patient safety.
▪ It also demonstrated how volatile the presidential race is, with change an ever-present participant.
clearly
▪ Thus, together, they demonstrate clearly some of the tensions within modern views about land and society.
▪ The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
▪ Children in primary school playgrounds clearly demonstrate an instinctive pleasure in rhythm, pattern and rhyme.
▪ This study demonstrates clearly the way many therapists are influenced by their colleagues to look for the abnormal.
▪ This clearly demonstrates the existence of a scalar curvature singularity on this hypersurface.
▪ They can, as all the fathers in this book so clearly demonstrate.
▪ The comparison of the effective exchange rate and actual rates clearly demonstrates the value and necessity for a weighted exchange rate.
▪ Along with excellent historical research, the benefits of science and technology to society were clearly demonstrated.
how
▪ We need to demonstrate how wrong they are.
▪ Pacino demonstrates how well he can play a very old man.
▪ The following section will demonstrate how the drug careers of the interviewees developed following this initial stage.
▪ Gourd artist Alice Hunter of Tavares will teach pine-needle weaving, demonstrating how to decorate rims of gourds with pine needles.
▪ That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.
▪ She held them up to the light and spread her fingers inside to demonstrate how sheer they were.
▪ In this first session she demonstrated how she nagged him and went on and on trying to get the response she wanted.
▪ Here are some examples to demonstrate how badly some people write resumes.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ His question-answering demonstrated an analytical ability, and respect for the questioner and for his audience.
▪ Experiments have demonstrated the ability to reproduce classical conditioning phenomena and robot control simulations.
▪ Reservoirs, wells and canals demonstrate the ability to regulate water supply.
▪ And both boys and girls with involved fathers demonstrate a greater ability to take initiative and direct themselves.
▪ Compulsory competitive tendering will oblige local authorities to bring in managers who demonstrate their ability to deliver the best services to tenants.
▪ I had to demonstrate that I had ability.
▪ More techniques are taught and there is ample opportunity to demonstrate your ability.
▪ By tying knots we demonstrate our knowledge and ability to deal with the powers of the world.
case
▪ The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.
▪ More recent cases demonstrate how the courts generally point to a number of factors in deeming incompetency.
▪ The case demonstrates the interlocking nature of rights, interests and obligations.
▪ These cases demonstrate that social care planning involves far more than slotting in occasional services piece meal, as they are available.
▪ It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs.
▪ The C.E. G.B. case demonstrates that consent will not always protect against possible criminal charges being brought.
▪ Each of the cases here demonstrates several aspects of these requirements.
commitment
▪ Over time action plans to remediate would also demonstrate commitment to minimise risk.
▪ You have to demonstrate some commitment to society.
▪ It is the Kate which demonstrates the commitment to realism of the film planners.
▪ They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways.
▪ These three young men have demonstrated a personal commitment and sacrifice which inspired them to attempt this daunting journey with enthusiasm.
▪ He or she also needs to demonstrate commitment to curriculum and pastoral development. 8.
▪ He had also demonstrated this commitment by appointing a dually qualified teacher-librarian as a Scale One probationer in charge of the library.
▪ Not only does this demonstrate a poor commitment to oneness, it is also very poor leadership technique.
example
▪ These examples demonstrate that it is absurd to say that the Cox Report does not advocate the teaching of grammar.
▪ One example demonstrated at a news conference would require spray cans to be plugged in.
▪ These examples demonstrate a comprehensive basis for further development and applications, including standard titrations in industry.
▪ Here are some examples to demonstrate how badly some people write resumes.
▪ She takes a number of specific examples, aiming to demonstrate the extent to which usage and contextualisation determine meaning.
▪ Even if she were replaced, her example demonstrates that party identification is not the only key to a clean Justice Department.
▪ The following examples demonstrate this to some extent.
▪ Most of the examples demonstrate how power bases flowing from personality served to fuel strategies in all three success categories.
experiment
▪ An additional experiment demonstrated that the smell of mothballs had the same effect.
▪ One experiment demonstrated reducing an 8-bit gray-scale image into 1 bit per pixel.
▪ The standard experiment to demonstrate the inductive signal from the vegetal region makes use of the animal cap.
▪ Nothing could satisfy the naturalists but an experiment, one demonstrating that the sexiness of sons drove the evolution of an ornament.
▪ There is another experiment which demonstrates the presence of factors in cells that turn on specific genes.
▪ At his laboratories Wednesday, Gray conducted an experiment that graphically demonstrated the differences in insulation.
▪ There have been many experiments demonstrating the validity of this principle and exploring detailed variables such as the timing and quality of feedback.
▪ The Hawthorne experiments demonstrated that work and worker / manager relationships were more complicated than that.
fact
▪ But its greater underlying significance is demonstrated by the fact that it, too, has been strongly opposed by Yard conservatives.
▪ But clustering of the orbits of comets and asteroids is a demonstrated fact.
▪ First, to argue that each party must trust the other does not demonstrate that each in fact does so.
▪ But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything.
▪ She has demonstrated a wellknown fact about physical punishment - it can lead to avoidance.
▪ Traditionally its importance is demonstrated by the fact that it underpinned Gloucester's usurpation and his brief reign.
▪ The continued competitiveness of Autocover is clearly demonstrated by the fact that 1,021 members arranged new Autocover policies during 1992.
▪ All of these initiatives demonstrate the fact that the need to pool resources is spurring the library community to greater collaborative efforts.
importance
▪ This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
▪ The transition will demonstrate to individuals the importance and value of periodic re-direction in their lives.
▪ Report on the potential of a short video to demonstrate the importance of accuracy in collecting road accident information.
▪ The comparison of these few-country studies demonstrates the importance of case selection and unit of analysis for drawing inferences.
▪ We are seeing a great cultural change among those companies who are demonstrating the importance and benefits of total quality management.
▪ They demonstrated the importance of early socialisation for the development of social and mental skills in the individual.
▪ This demonstrates clearly the importance of the two leading companies in their fight for market share.
▪ Yet 1857 had also demonstrated the full strategic importance of railways and their role in maintaining future order.
need
▪ Straight forward directions can also demonstrate the need for change.
▪ The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.
▪ If you demonstrate the need, the Government irrespective of party will be forced to pay up.
▪ But to get the revival off the ground, the pioneers in the 17305 had to demonstrate a need in the colonies.
▪ Both offerings demonstrate the need for sin to be dealt with objectively, and give prominence to the use of the blood.
▪ Which demonstrates our need of a sense of history: we need it to know what real injustice looked like.
▪ To Mosley, the war had brought an end to traditional party politics and had demonstrated the need fur central economic planning.
▪ This study demonstrated the need to do more careful appraisals of anthropometric measurements on a regularly scheduled basis.
opportunity
▪ Indeed they made a significant contribution to the life of the city and took every opportunity to demonstrate their existence.
▪ At a recent luncheon held in her honor here, she had every opportunity to demonstrate her kindness.
▪ The suspect has little opportunity for demonstrating his or her innocence against any one of a medley of permissive street powers.
▪ Projects provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate personal initiative.
▪ They also represent opportunities to demonstrate good leadership.
▪ More techniques are taught and there is ample opportunity to demonstrate your ability.
▪ The police had made one mistake too many in this case and would be given no further opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence.
▪ Recording of activities provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate how key factors are influencing the conduct of the investigation.
power
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
▪ In La Strada, Fellini and Rota also demonstrate the poetic power of film music.
▪ It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type.
▪ Joe and Helyne Victor have also demonstrated parent power in their own family and to this entire business.
▪ The hub system has demonstrated the power of networks, where bigger is better.
▪ Worldwide networking is finally demonstrating the power of collaboration between humans and machines.
▪ A woman who holds both of these in balance demonstrates the sanctifying power of differentiation.
▪ Any manic, cleared, seemed to demonstrate far more actual power and energy than before he was cleared.
result
▪ Our results demonstrate that these systems are genuinely 3-D superconductors as opposed to lower-dimensional or granular superconductors.
▪ Numerous studies of the results of ballot initiatives demonstrate the obvious: Money is a big factor in their outcome.
▪ These results are demonstrated in Figures and.
▪ At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion.
skill
▪ At least 30 craftspeople will be demonstrating their skills and selling their wares, all beautifully sited in marquees on the lawns.
▪ In particular, he declared, Greenspan has demonstrated skill in adjusting interest rates.
▪ Worm-lions, however, also demonstrate another technical skill.
▪ Harry Dodson demonstrates the skills of a Victorian head gardener.
▪ An old acquaintance visiting from California once asked to borrow my Teflon skillet to demonstrate his culinary skills.
▪ All pupils had seen Prestel demonstrated in their information skills course.
▪ An experienced nurse should demonstrate a new nursing skill before the learner attempts it herself.
▪ Talk to our experts from around the world who will be demonstrating their skills in the beauty of working with wood.
study
▪ The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.
▪ But, as careful studies demonstrate, entrepreneurs do not seek risks, they seek opportunities.
▪ Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins, in particular lead.
▪ This study demonstrated the need to do more careful appraisals of anthropometric measurements on a regularly scheduled basis.
▪ Many studies stop at demonstrating double dissociations.
▪ Several studies have demonstrated that sperm exposed to caffeine swim faster and more energetically than normal.
▪ However, this initial, albeit restricted, study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications.
▪ This study demonstrates clearly the way many therapists are influenced by their colleagues to look for the abnormal.
use
▪ The rose gardens demonstrate the use of carpeting varieties and of the miniature kinds as tub plants.
▪ His own experience would enable him to demonstrate the use of the breathing apparatus, and he volunteered to go down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A trainer came in to demonstrate how the new computer system worked.
▪ Aerobics instructors should always demonstrate each new movement first.
▪ Brenda wanted to demonstrate her sympathy in a practical way.
▪ Here are some examples that demonstrate how badly some students write their resumés.
▪ His commitment to the company is demonstrated by his work on the project.
▪ I'm afraid this whole episode demonstrates that we have become less compassionate as a society.
▪ If you still don't understand, Marcia will be happy to demonstrate.
▪ Sloan demonstrated impressive leadership in building a company that took employees' needs into account.
▪ The assessment center gives each applicant the opportunity to demonstrate whether they are suited to the work.
▪ The new law was intended to demonstrate the government's concern for the lowest paid workers.
▪ The President is anxious to demonstrate that he has a strong foreign policy.
▪ The ski instructor began by demonstrating the correct way to turn.
▪ The studies demonstrate a clear link between smoking and heart disease.
▪ Thousands of people demonstrated outside the parliament building last night.
▪ Thousands of workers and students demonstrated against US involvement in the war.
▪ Try to round off your answer by demonstrating how your old job has prepared you to do the job you are applying for.
▪ You've got to be able to demonstrate to people that the union can help in these cases.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A long-range effort from Eyjolfur Sverrisson was parried by Lukic and Walter demonstrated his predatory instincts ruthlessly inside the box.
▪ But leadership, like art, can be demonstrated.
▪ He will also have demonstrated his willingness to leave a marriage.
▪ Joe and Helyne Victor have also demonstrated parent power in their own family and to this entire business.
▪ More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
▪ Or perhaps the don't knows didn't know where to demonstrate their indecision.
▪ That this substance is divine and intelligent is demonstrated by the orderliness of the universe.
▪ The Soviets had demonstrated unsuspected scientific and engineering skills.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demonstrate

Demonstrate \Dem"on*strate\ (?; 277), v. t. [L. demonstratus, p. p. of demonstrare to demonstrate; de- + monstrare to show. See Monster.]

  1. To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
    --Shak.

  2. To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial.

    We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction.
    --Tillotson.

  3. (Anat.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
demonstrate

1550s, "to point out," from Latin demonstratus, past participle of demonstrare (see demonstration). Meaning "to point out by argument or deduction" is from 1570s. Related: Demonstrated; demonstrating.

Wiktionary
demonstrate

vb. 1 To display the method of using an object. 2 To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation. 3 To participate in or organize a demonstration.

WordNet
demonstrate
  1. v. show or demonstrate something to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: show, demo, exhibit, present]

  2. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: prove, establish, show, shew] [ant: disprove]

  3. provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, evidence]

  4. march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle" [syn: march]

Wikipedia
Demonstrate (song)

"Demonstrate" is a song recorded by American recording artist JoJo for her forthcoming untitled third studio album. It was written by JoJo, Daniel Daley, Anthony Jeffries and Noah "40" Shebib, who also handled the songs production. The song's development was conceived after JoJo released a cover version of the song " Marvins Room" by Drake, which was also produced by Shebib. Following critical acclaim JoJo organised recording sessions with the producer to find a new more confident sound for her much-delayed third album.

Following the announcement that JoJo was moving into a new direction with the album, she also went on to announce that the R&B slow jam will serve as the album's lead single from the yet-to-be titled third studio album, replacing " Disaster", which was released almost a year earlier. Musically, "Demonstrate" is a R&B-leaning slow jam that comprises instruments like the guitar, drum and strings.

"Demonstrate" made its world premiere online & on US radio on July 17, 2012 and was scheduled for release to digital outlets on August 28, 2012 through Interscope, Blackground and Streamline Records, however, its release was eventually scrapped. Upon its release, "Demonstrate" received favorable reviews from critics generally praising the sexiness of the song with some who noted its similarities to Kelly Rowland's 2011 single " Motivation", with some claiming "Demonstrate" sounds exactly like a song someone like Rowland might release. Some critics complimented its musical direction, JoJo's sexy confidence and her growth and maturity in the song.

Usage examples of "demonstrate".

A hereditary monarchy could be a republic, Adams held, as England demonstrated, and hereditary aristocracies could be usefully employed in balanced governments, as in the House of Lords.

If you could demonstrate your Africanism to two hundred million Africans, how great might your influence become.

That, so far as possible, all biologic instruction should be objective was with Agassiz an educational dogma, and upon several notable occasions its validity had been demonstrated under very unfavorable conditions.

He had heard of an alieni st in London who took pictures of the patients in his asylum because he was an amateur of physiognomy, who wished to demonstrate the importance of race, inter-breeding and cranial phenomena in the process of morbid degeneration.

In a gratifyingly short time she demonstrated how allomorphism might be banished from the Haluk genome.

There are some simple and painless experiments which may be demonstrated to any set of pupils, although living animals are the subjects of them.

The new barber had begun to demonstrate that in fact he had a fertile hand, when it was discovered that he was wanted by several Antillean police forces for raping novices, and he was taken away in chains.

In the spring, when the nights became shorter and the ineffectiveness of our antisubmarine warfare had been demonstrated, the U-boats became bolder and attacked in broad daylight, even surfaced.

The latest research tentatively demonstrates that the level of certain apolipoproteins in your bloodstream predicts your chances of having a heart attack even more accurately than the HDLs do.

The expedition therefore had been equipped with special devices for communication as well as with automata that would be able, in the absence of preliminary negotiations through an exchange of signals, to demonstrate the peaceful nature of the expedition prior to landing.

Bear will now demonstrate what happens when someone hits you hard with a backsword, instead of a light cut like that.

Siberia, to be on the lookout for any performing bears that demonstrated any tricks or abilities out of the ordinary.

The master of murder was personally demonstrating the fact that men could cross from Gray Towers to Beaverwood at will.

But whether it can ever be satisfactorily demonstrated that the Norse explorers came in contact with Algonquin, Micmac, or Beothuk Indians, and just where they landed, are not matters of essential importance.

As Jacques Bernoulli demonstrated early in the eighteenth century, an isolated event is no harbinger of anything, but the greater your sampling the more likely you are to guess the true distribution of phenomena within your sample.