Verb
demonstrate (third-person singular simple present demonstrates, present participle demonstrating, simple past and past participle demonstrated)
- (transitive) to show how to use (something).
Can you demonstrate the new tools for us?
1987 February 8, Richard Zachs, “Candy is dandy (though maybe not liquor) - so for this Valentine's Day, video may be a whole lot more fun”, in The New York Daily News:In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner. As she speaks, comely nude couples demonstrate.
- to show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
- (intransitive) to participate in or organize a demonstration.
Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results.
- (transitive) to show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:"What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […] "
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Conjugation of demonstrate
Translations
to show how to use something
- Azerbaijani: nümayiş etdirmək
- Belarusian: пака́зваць impf (pakázvacʹ), паказа́ць (be) pf (pakazácʹ)
- Bulgarian: показвам (bg) (pokazvam), демонстрирам (bg) (demonstriram)
- Catalan: demostrar (ca)
- Danish: demonstrere
- Dutch: demonstreren (nl)
- Esperanto: montri (eo), elmontri
- Finnish: näyttää (fi), demonstroida (fi)
- French: démontrer (fr)
- Galician: demostrar (gl)
- German: demonstrieren (de)
- Greek: δείχνω (el) (deíchno)
- Hungarian: bemutat (hu), szemléltet (hu)
- Ido: demonstrar (io)
- Italian: dimostrare (it)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: doceo (la)
- Lushootseed: ʔugʷus
- Polish: demonstrować (pl) impf, zademonstrować pf
- Portuguese: demonstrar (pt)
- Romanian: demonstra (ro)
- Russian: пока́зывать (ru) impf (pokázyvatʹ), показа́ть (ru) pf (pokazátʹ), (formal) демонстри́ровать (ru) impf (demonstrírovatʹ), продемонстри́ровать (ru) pf (prodemonstrírovatʹ)
- Slovene: prikazati
- Spanish: demostrar (es), demonstrar (es)
- Swedish: demonstrera (sv), förevisa (sv)
- Thai: สาธิต (th) (sǎa-tít)
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to show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation
to participate in a demonstration
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