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demonstrate
dem‧on‧strate S3 W2 AC /ˈdemənstreɪt/ verb [Word Family: noun: demonstration, demonstrator; adverb: demonstrably, demonstratively; adjective: demonstrable, demonstrative; verb: demonstrate] [date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : demonstratus, past participle of demonstrare, from monstrare 'to show'] 1. [TRANSITIVE] to show or prove something clearly: ▪ The study demonstrates the link between poverty and malnutrition. demonstrate that ▪ Hitchcock’s films demonstrate that a British filmmaker could learn from Hollywood. demonstrate how/what/why etc ▪ This section will attempt to demonstrate how the Bank of England operates. ▪ The government now has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to reform.
2. [TRANSITIVE] to show or describe how to do something or how something works demonstrate how ▪ They’ll be demonstrating how to handle modern, high performance cars. ▪ Instructors should demonstrate new movements before letting the class try them.
3. [INTRANSITIVE] to protest or support something in public with a lot of other people: ▪ Supporters demonstrated outside the courtroom during the trial. demonstrate against ▪ What are they demonstrating against?
4. [TRANSITIVE] to show that you have a particular ability, quality, or feeling: ▪ He has demonstrated an ability to meet deadlines.
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.
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