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# demonstration

«demonstration» in Mova's school dictionary: **showing people how to do something or how something works** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a demonstration, demonstrations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A demonstration is showing people how to do something or how something works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#m1)

2) A demonstration is a public event where people march or gather to show what they think about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#m2)

3) A demonstration is a way of showing a feeling or quality: a demonstration of love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the teacher gives a demonstration of an experiment before pupils try it. In citizenship lessons, people have the right to hold peaceful demonstrations, also called protests. Phrases: give a demonstration, do a demonstration, a peaceful demonstration.

### examples

- The teacher gave a demonstration of how a volcano erupts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x1)
- Watch the demonstration before you try. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x2)
- The chef did a cooking demonstration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x3)
- Thousands of people joined the demonstration in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x4)
- The demonstration was peaceful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x5)
- The firefighter gave a demonstration of how to use the extinguisher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/#x6)

### note

Countable noun. Verb: demonstrate; short form: demo. A protest and a demonstration are similar; a demonstration may also just show how something works. Spelling: de-mon-stra-tion.

### In the corpora

- [You watch the safety demonstration even if you have seen it before, because each plane can be different.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «demonstration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demonstration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.