Word Meanings - DEMONSTRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. (more info) 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the

Additional info about word: DEMONSTRATION

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. (more info) 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called "proofs;" and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. Locke. 2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief Shak. Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. Prescott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMONSTRATION)

• Indication
• Sign
• token
• manifestation
• evidence
• demonstration
• note
• symptom
• proof
• mark
• prognostic
• Proof
• Test
• trial
• examination
• criterion
• essay
• establishment
• probation
• testimony
• scrutiny
• Show
• Appearance
• exhibition
• parade
• pomp
• semblance
• likeness
• pretext
• profession
• pretence
• illusion
• Spectacle
• Sight
• display
• picture
• scene
• representation
• gazingstock
• show
• pageant
• flourish
• Token
• Evidence
• sample
• illustration
• memorial
• symbol
• indication
• badge
• index
• diagnosis
• sign

Related words: (words related to DEMONSTRATION)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• SCENEMAN
  The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• PAGEANT
  or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page 1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• TESTIMONY
  The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.