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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
demonstrator
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 headquarters were besieged by angry demonstrators.
peaceful
▪ This has caused some concern as peaceful demonstrators may be prevented from marching because of the threat posed by a potentially disruptive counter-demonstration.
▪ The violence against peaceful demonstrators by police was downplayed, while violence against police was played up.
■ NOUN
student
▪ Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators, which precipitated the November revolution.
▪ The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police.
▪ The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators.
■ VERB
arrest
▪ Troops entered the hotel and arrested an estimated 1,500 demonstrators, many of whom were beaten before being taken away.
kill
▪ Other sources claimed that 10 members of the ruling Ba'ath party had also been killed by the demonstrators.
shoot
▪ The army has since been ordered to shoot demonstrators on sight.
use
▪ Tear-gas was used against the demonstrators, a few were arrested, and tourists were ordered to stay in their hotels.
▪ Outside the group's headquarters, police and soldiers used tear gas against demonstrators.
▪ In some places army reserves were called out to protect public property, and in Manchester high-pressure water-hoses were used against demonstrators.
▪ He asserted the mere threat of using troops to support demonstrators was the same as using troops.
▪ There had been widespread fears of police violence, and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday.
▪ She settled on a five-passenger model that Lockheed was using as a demonstrator in the East.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Thirteen demonstrators were killed when soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the end of July, 23 demonstrators had been killed and several wounded by security forces.
▪ Club activities centre on monthly meetings, an information service and the production of application demonstrators.
▪ Fortunately, the 75 demonstrators in front of the country club were colorful.
▪ Mary and Reggie came in, smiling, and glowing with that special look of the successful demonstrator.
▪ Right-wing groups fired on left-wing demonstrators.
▪ Some 157 demonstrators were subsequently convicted of a range of offences and were sentenced to up to 20 years' imprisonment.
▪ Troops entered the hotel and arrested an estimated 1,500 demonstrators, many of whom were beaten before being taken away.
▪ We expected the march in the District to be huge, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators attending.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demonstrator

Demonstrator \Dem"on*stra`tor\ (?; 277), n. [L.: cf. F. d['e]monstrateur.]

  1. One who demonstrates; specif.

    1. one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.

    2. one who shows how a certain device operates or a procedure is performed.

  2. (Anat.) A teacher of practical anatomy.

  3. a person who participates in a demonstration[7].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
demonstrator

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."

Wiktionary
demonstrator

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.

WordNet
demonstrator

  1. n. a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught

  2. someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer [syn: sales demonstrator]

  3. someone who participates in a public display of group feeling [syn: protester]

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Wikipedia
Demonstrator (film)

Demonstrator is a 1971 film directed by Warwick Freeman.

Demonstrator

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, and issued to locations for use as a prospective emergency vehicle if adopted to that workforce either police, ambulance or fire.
  • A fountain pen with a transparent body originally used so dealers could show customers how they worked. See Demonstrator pen
  • Demonstrator (film)

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.