demonstrationn.
/ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The action, process, or fact of establishing the truth of a proposition or theory by reasoning or deduction or (in later use) by providing practical evidence in support of it; an instance of this; (Logic) an argument or sequence of propositions showing that a conclusion, theorem, etc., is a necessary consequence of axioms or previously accepted statements. In early use with the sense of proving something beyond doubt; later also with the weaker sense of providing evidence and argumentation to support a theory or claim.See also lineal demonstration at lineal adj. 1a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun]
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probation?a1450
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remonstration1490
verification?1541
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remonstrance1583
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convincement1656
approof1881
c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Huntington) v. l. 7164* (MED) Thei..maden calculacioun, Wherof be demonstracioun The man was founde with the good.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 1436 He makth his calculacions, He makth his demonstracions; The houres of Astronomie He kepeth as for that partie.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iv. l. 1143 It haþ[e] ben shewid and proued by ful many[e] demonstraciouns [L. permultis demonstrationibus] as I woot wel þat þe soules of men ne mowen nat dien in no wise.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 516 In Arsmetrik shal ther no man fynde Bifore this day of swich a questioun Who sholde make [c1455 Princeton Univ. have] a demonstracioun That euery man sholde han ylike his part As of a soun or sauour of a fart.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aiiij They affyrme the earth to bee rounde, whiche..they proue wyth moste certayne and apparente demonstracions of Geometrye.
1563 J. Man tr. W. Musculus Common Places Christian Relig. f. 141 Not meete for any wise body to beleue the word of matters vnknowen, set forth without any Syllogisticall demonstration.
1650 in T. Rudd Pract. Geom. To Rdr. sig. B2 A Hundred Questions with their Solutions & Demonstrations.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. ii. 265 Those intervening Ideas, which serve to shew the Agreement of any two others, are called Proofs; and where the Agreement or Disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called Demonstration, it being shewn to the Understanding, and the Mind made see that it is so.
1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 13 (note) Of all our late Transformers of Euclide, He is the most Ungeometrical in Demonstration.
1773 E. Bentham Introd. Logick i. vi. 24 When we talk of infallible Knowledge, and infallible Certainty, we usually mean such as arises from Intuition, or from scientifical Demonstration.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 397 I more than fear, the prevailing taste for Books of Natural Theology, Physico-theology, Demonstrations of God from Nature, Evidences of Christianity, &c.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 42 In a mathematical demonstration an error in the original number disturbs the whole calculation which follows.
1876 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic (1880) 335 A demonstration is either Direct or Indirect. In the latter case we prove the conclusion by disproving the contradictory, or shewing that the conclusion cannot be supposed untrue.
1909 C. N. Churchill Active Footsteps ix. 93 He needs some one to go ahead and prove by practical demonstration that things can be made to grow in one country as well as another.
1929 Mind 38 360 His sustained and masterly demonstration of the self-ruinous character of all such ‘psychologistic’ theories.
1955 A. N. Prior Formal Logic 65 ‘Metalogical’ demonstrations ought..to be themselves ‘logical’ in the sense of being cogent.
1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized iii. 87 A demonstration arrives at a proposition from certain givens.
2002 Astron. in UK 28/3 Another brilliant piece of theoretical work by Stephen Hawking is his demonstration that black holes can radiate away mass.
2. A sign or indication that something is true; a thing or circumstance which establishes the truth of a claim or theory; (a piece of) evidence or proof. In early use also: †a symbol, a portent (obsolete). Chiefly with of or that-clause.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > conclusive proof or argument
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clinker1733
clincher1804
clencher1878
society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign
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fingereOE
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markOE
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 1580 For al his calculacion, He seth no demonstracion Al pleinly forto knowe an ende.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 5963 (MED) Þe quenchinge of þe fires rede Was vn-to hem a demonstracioun Boþe of Ire and indignacioun.
a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 13 (MED) Many other tokyns, and tailes, liche to this, the which now may well be demyd by varay demonstracions, and also pronosticacions..had he or the tyme of his deth fell.
1553 J. Hooper Whether Christian Faith maye be kepte Secret sig. a.ii And as the want of fruite, is a demonstration that the tree is vnprofitable: so the want of true confession of faith, is a token that the faith is dead.
1564 T. Dorman Proufe Certeyne Articles in Relig. f. 128 The altars (the building vp whereof in oure countrie of England Chrisostome vsed as a demonstration to proue that we had receiued the strength of goddes worde) [etc.].
1659 O. Walker Περιαμμα Ἐπιδήμιον ii. 31 The Circulation of the Bloud is a Demonstration of an Eternall Being.
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 130 Cock Fighting..A Scarlet Head is a Demonstration of Courage, but a Pale and Wan of Faintness... [These qualities] are Demonstrations of Excellency and Courage.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 18 Found nothing..but a Book of Psalms, which was a sufficient Demonstration..that I had been a Hugonot.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 269 Told me..I should have Demonstration of her Infidelity.
1798 tr. T. Tasso Householder in Sel. from Most Celebrated Foreign Literary Jrnls. II. 456 Disorder is a sure demonstration, that there is a consuming cancer at the heart.
1807 Proc. Old Bailey 1 July 329/2 My keeping the malt seven weeks, when I might have removed it, must also afford a demonstration of my innocence.
1894 R. S. Ball In High Heavens i. 13 The figures given will provide a demonstration that there must have been a vast change in the appearance of the heavens within the lapse of the last million years.
1945 Trans. Faraday Soc. 41 321 One of the clearest demonstrations of the spherulitic structure was provided by a specimen of polythene.
1992 New Republic 6 Apr. 28/3 The house became a demonstration that modern design could be humanized.
a. The action of pointing something out or making something known; (also) the action of making oneself known; manifestation; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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society > communication > manifestation > [noun]
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showingOE
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demonstrationc1450
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exertment1696
show-off1776
unfoldment1850
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outplay1859
eclosion1889
c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) v. l. 466 Of a shewyng [a1500 Adv. schynyng] by demonstracion Is phanos seyd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 146 Of adverbes..Some betoken demonstration & serve to shewe or poynt to a dede.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 172 For the open apparaunce, and demonstracion of this godly concorde.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 177 Christ preaching to save him [sc. St. Thomas]..shewes himselfe (by demonstration) unto him.
1668 R. Wallis (title) Room for the Cobler of Gloucester and his Wife, with Several Cartloads of Abominable, Irregular, Pitiful, Stinking Priests, also a Demonstration of their Calling.
b. An illustration. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > an explanation, exposition, account
reasonc1300
interpretation1390
gloss1548
esclarishment1549
demonstration1559
resolution1582
elucidary1603
elucidation1667
éclaircissement1673
expositive1687
mise au point1929
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Pref. sig. Avv Diuisinge sundry newe Tables, Pictures, demonstrations, & præceptes.
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Bii Makynge demonstrations to a Latine worke with Greke letters.
4.
a. An exhibition or outward display of a quality or feeling. Now only with of. Frequently with the sense of a deliberate exhibition of a positive feeling or quality, but sometimes also with the sense of an unintentional betrayal of a negative characteristic. Sometimes coloured by sense 2.
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society > communication > manifestation > [noun] > a manifestation
showingOE
spectacle1483
ostentationa1513
demonstration1517
objection1554
manifest1561
reflection1590
object1609
manifestation1646
avatar1850
1517 R. Fox tr. Rule Seynt Benet liii. sig. f.iiiv Suche oon as hath the offyce of the hospitular must goo agaynste him [sc. a guest] with the shewe & a demonstracion of all cherfull & charytable maner.
1523 King Henry VIII in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. iii. 43 Some manifest Demonstration of Gratuity and Kindness.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. C6 With my tormented demonstrations and great boldnes..I ouercame hir.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvii. 11 Did your letters pierce the queene to any demonstration of griefe. View more context for this quotation
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 136 Beleeving those affectionate-seeming demonstrations to be really true.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iv. 11 We gave them a great peal of Ordnance..beating our Drums, and sounding our Trumpets, to the end that by these exterior demonstrations they might conclude we regarded not the Turks awhit.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 252 Great were the outward demonstrations of love and confidence between the two Monarchs.
1793 A. Dalzel Hist. Dahomy i. v. 21 The Dahoman Prince received the news of this victory with every possible demonstration of joy.
1838 C. Lyell Let. 6 Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (1986) II. 101 In this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ii. 33 She seemed to think any demonstration of suffering a weakness.
1937 Life 13 Sept. 31/2 (caption) This demonstration of solidarity brought extra heils from the crowd.
1964 H. Rosenthal & J. Warrack Conc. Oxf. Dict. Opera 259/2 The plot [was] continually arrested to make way for demonstrations of vocal skill.
2002 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. iv. 5/2 Mr. Bush made a public demonstration of willingness to honor the traditional rules of the game.
b. As a mass noun: outward exhibition of feeling; demonstrative behaviour.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition
show1569
ejection1650
effusion1659
excursion1662
sally1676
demonstrativeness1841
gushing1852
transpirationa1854
demonstration1856
gushingness1859
effusiveness1877
gushiness1937
1856 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 244/1 We are sufficiently accustomed to the pure and dignified example of our liege lady—sufficiently acquainted with the wise exertions of the Prince for the common weal—to receive both without much demonstration.
1862 Sat. Rev. 6 Dec. 673/1 They..are exuberant and unrestrained because of some conspicuous want which cuts them off from our sympathy. We do not know what to make of so much demonstration.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. xv. 358 Demonstration, be it in movements that rise finally to spasms and contortions, or be it in sounds that end in laughter and shrieks and groans.
1905 Westminster (Philadelphia) 25 Nov. 31/1 Coyle was there to stir to repeated applause by his lofty vision and deep-souled utterances an audience that was not easily moved to demonstration.
1968 Irish Times 29 May (Property Devel. Suppl.) p. iv/3 We should allow this to happen without much demonstration, I feel.
2012 R. Hauck Wedding Dress 205 Her minister passed it off as emotionalism. But Molly was a steady girl, not given to demonstration.
5.
a. A practical exhibition and explanation of how something works or is done, esp. as a method of teaching or instruction; explanation by example. In early use chiefly with reference to the teaching of sciences, esp. anatomy.
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching
demonstration1742
bear-leading1766
royal road1793
tachydidaxy1846
object teaching1851
object system1862
methodic1864
community education1873
methodics1883
maieutics1885
type-system1901
direct method1904
spoon-feeding1905
play method1914
playway1914
project method1916
active learning1919
study skills1924
skit1926
free activity1929
hypnopaedia1932
sleep-teaching1932
chalk and talk1937
show-and-tell1941
demo1945
naming of (the) parts1946
team teaching1949
teleteaching1953
programming1954
audio-lingualism1961
immersion1965
dem1968
open learning1970
suggestopaedia1970
suggestopedy1970
distance learning1972
fast-tracking1972
paideia1982
tutorial1984
m-learning2001
1742 Hist. Wks. Learned Nov. 396 Professors Ruysch and Raw..whose Anatomical and Chirurgical Demonstrations he diligently attended.
1754 R. Brookes Introd. Physic & Surg. Pref. p. iv It will be necessary for the Student..to be present at the Demonstrations of Anatomy.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 95 Mr. Taunton will resume his Winter Course of Lectures and Demonstrations on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Surgery.
1832 Examiner 395/1 On Monday there was a demonstration on the viscera by Mr. Grainger.
1883 Notes on Bks. (Longman) vi. 204 The [cookery] course consists of fifteen lessons, twelve to be given by demonstration followed by practice.
1916 Times 28 June 5/4 One-pot cookery demonstrations..aroused much interest.
1940 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 7 Aug. 4 Demonstrations of how to build road-blocks, how to deal with tanks,..are all part of the Home Guard training.
2004 Central Coast Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. Community members..giving craft demonstrations in woodturning, silk painting, art, pottery and ceramics.
b. Originally U.S. A practical display of the merits, operation, use, etc., of a product to prospective buyers. Cf. demo n.2 3.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > other types of selling
demonstration1904
direct marketing1912
telesales1939
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > [noun] > practical display of operation or use of a product
demonstration1904
dem1968
1904 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 16 Jan. 1/1 W. J. Lincoln, representative of the German-American Coffee Co., is in the city and will remain during the demonstration of that product at the Eighmey grocery.
1921 Rotarian Sept. 164/1 An advertisement—standing by itself—is simply a substitute for the demonstration of merchandise.
1977 Washington Post 6 Jan. (Virginia Weekly) 6/3 The home party plan..is an educational..method of selling direct to the consumer through demonstrations by trained consultants.
2009 S. K. Jones Business-to-business Internet Marketing (ed. 5) i. 11 Free trials, money-back guarantees, and product demonstrations..are now accepted direct marketing practices.
6. Military. A show of military force or of offensive movement, esp. (in the course of active hostilities) to engage the enemy's attention while other operations are going on elsewhere, or (in time of peace) to indicate readiness for active hostilities. Frequently in to make a demonstration. Recorded earliest in armed demonstration n. at armed adj.1 Compounds. See also counter-demonstration n. at counter- prefix 2b(a).
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > show of force
show1548
show of force1606
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demonstration1806
demonstrationizing1882
1806 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. June 174 His Imperial and Royal Majesty engages to execute, without delay, the military arrangements agreed upon at Vienna, as well for the armed demonstration which is to facilitate the negotiation, as for the operations against the enemy which may ensue.
1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges 109 Prince Eugene..made demonstrations to attack the post of Masi, and to cross the Adige to La badia... [He] continued his demonstrations at Masi, until he heard that Colonel Batté had succeeded in throwing 500 men across the river.
1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara II. iv. 333 He last year made a demonstration against Julalabad, a district between Cabool and Peshawur.
1920 Atlantic Monthly July 131/2 The third step..should be an embargo; the fourth, a commercial blockade: the fifth, a naval demonstration; and the last, military occupancy.
1998 W. E. Parrish Frank Blair ix. 212 One of Frank's divisions..[was] sent to make a demonstration so as to create the impression that Charleston might be the army's destination.
7. A public march or rally expressing an opinion about a political or other issue; esp. one in protest against or support of something. Cf. demo n.2 1. See also peace demonstration n. at peace n. Compounds 1a.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration
protesting1582
demonstration1839
manifestation1875
demo1904
march1908
protest march1914
zap1972
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > public demonstration > [noun]
demonstration1839
demo1904
1839 Britannia 25 May 4/5 Whig emissaries have been employed to get up what, in their own conventional cant, they call a demonstration, to mark the national joy [etc.].
1861 Sat. Rev. 22 June 630 Then, besides ‘ovations’, there are ‘demonstrations’, the Q.E.D. of which is not always very easy to see. We read how the students of such an University ‘made a demonstration’. This we believe means, in plain English, that the students kicked up a row.
1884 Christian World 16 Oct. 781/1 The demonstration of demonstrations took place on Saturday at Chatsworth, when..about 80,000 people came together.
1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 531/1 Students in Peking began a demonstration on May 4, 1919, against the pro-Japanese government.
1993 Utne Reader Jan. 48/2 Activists participating in the massive New York demonstration for nuclear disarmament.
2009 T. Footman Noughties ii. 22 February 15, 2003 was witness to mass coordinated anti-war demonstrations in hundreds of cities around the world.
8. Roman Law. A plaintiff's statement of the alleged facts on which a case is founded. Cf. intention n. 13.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > setting forth of plaintiff's case
declaration1483
counting1686
demonstration1854
1854 P. M. de Colquhoun Summ. Rom. Civil Law III. vi. v. 330 Whether the remedy was of one or the other nature depended..on the intentio: if direct, then there was in the demonstration, some word which marked the distinction.
1864 J. N. Pomeroy Introd. Munic. Law i. ii. 107 The formula commenced with a part called..Demonstration (demonstratio) which contained a short statement of the plaintiff's cause of action.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 289 The demonstration is that part of the formula which [is inserted at the outset] on purpose to show what is the matter in dispute.
1902 H. J. Roby Rom. Private Law II. vi. viii. 354 In a suit ex vendito against the buyer of a slave for the purchase money, the demonstration would state the fact of the sale, and the claim might be for the agreed amount.
2003 A. C. Johnson et al. Anc. Rom. Statutes (new ed.) Gloss. 263/1 A full formula could contain at least twelve clauses: (1) nomination (nominatio) of a judicial delegate.., (2) demonstration (demonstratio) of what was in dispute, [etc.].
Phrases
to demonstration (also †to a demonstration): beyond doubt; conclusively. Now rare.
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1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ Pref. p. lxvi It is an extraordinary sagacity that can discover this Chapter in Bede, to be clear to a Demonstration that he makes the Scots to be ancient Inhabitants in Britain.
1688 Bp. J. Williams Pulpit Popery, True Popery xiv. 70 Any one that reads this, would be apt to think that the matter of Fact had never been questioned, or had been prov'd to a Demonstration, beyond possibility of Reply.
1700 C. Leslie Def. Snake in Grass ii. vii. 197 If being Ideots, or most Extravagantly Un-Reasonable cou'd Prove this, the Quakers have done it, to Demonstration!
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 25 'Tis apparent to a Demonstration, that from every Pair..about two hundred Eggs..are produced.
1777 R. E. Raspe in tr. I. Born Trav. Bannat of Temeswar xii. 111 (note) It was proved to demonstration that the Sigismund gallery really is a Roman work.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. vi. 77 I will..produce evidence which will shew to demonstration, that these certificates..are false as hell!
1843 C. Elizabeth Wrongs of Woman (1844) xx. 262 ‘Now, what inference do you draw from these facts?’ ‘I don't know, sir, I'm sure.’ ‘No? it's plain to demonstration.’
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 236 He proved to demonstration the soundness of the judgment he had formed.
1933 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 23 38 E. Stein has proved to demonstration that Dalmatia always belonged to the West.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 5), as demonstration area, demonstration class, demonstration project, etc.
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1843 Caledonian Mercury 4 May 1/5 (heading) Anatomical demonstration class.
1861 Temple Bar Nov. 515 The anatomy-class meets at 2 o'clock, the demonstration-class at 4.
1883 Notes on Bks. (Longman) vi. 204 Every girl who attends the whole course will have twelve Demonstration and fourteen Practice lessons.
1902 Rep. Brit. Forestry 9 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 1319) XX. 1203 We recommend..that two areas for practical demonstration be acquired... We suggest that the Alice Holt Woods in Hampshire be made available as soon as possible to serve as a Demonstration Area.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 12/2 The Board of Education recognises gardening as a school subject... To each school is allotted a demonstration plot, which is used by the teacher for object-lessons.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 4/1 To..give demonstration flights.
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA viii. 52 The TVA..set up five demonstration parks in the Valley.
1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio viii. 156 Hitler sent from Germany a special regiment, the Infantry Lehr Regiment, a demonstration unit composed of approved Nazis.
1995 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 18/7 The kit includes chess pieces, a demonstration board and a teachers' manual.
2000 SMT June 18/2 IPI's brief is..to set up a handful of demonstration projects which show how asset tagging can benefit police and businesses.
C2.
demonstration disc n. = demo disc n. at demo n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1947 Billboard 5 July 33/2 Song material and the setting stamps them all like a pack of demonstration disks cut at some amateur school of music by some amateur songwriters.
1951 Billboard 3 Feb. 12/5 The demonstration disk as a jump-off spot for talent is also coming to the fore.
1965 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 6 June 6 b/2 She sent a demonstration disc to one of Britain's biggest recording companies.
2011 Observer (Nexis) 12 June (Special Suppl.) 17 It became the default demonstration disc used by shops to persuade customers to spring for a CD player.
demonstration farm n. a farm which is used primarily to research and demonstrate agricultural techniques, rather than to make a profit.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > experimental or scientific farm
fancy-farm1810
bonanza farm1883
demonstration farm1885
1885 Calcutta Rev. 81 428 The Demonstration Farm will have been true to its name, for it will have shown that so far Western science has nothing to teach the Indian agriculturist.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 4/1 The demonstration farm of the Northumberland County Council at Cockle Park.
1990 H. Palmer & T. Palmer Alberta: New Hist. v. 124 The research stations held ‘field days’ at demonstration farms across the province, where local farmers had been paid a small sum to try some of the techniques the experts had recommended.
demonstration model n. (a) a model which is built for the sole purpose of demonstrating the function, performance, etc., of something; (b) a product (esp. a car or other vehicle) which can be tested by prospective buyers, and which may be sold at a reduced price after fulfilling this function for a time; cf. demo n.2 2a, demonstrator n. 3c.
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1886 Telegr. Jrnl. & Electr. Rev. 8 Oct. 351/1 The experiments of transformation, for which the coil is adapted—and in particular the portable demonstration model of Ducretet—are numerous and varied.
1915 Automobile Topics 5 June 277/3 A demonstration model is at present being subjected to severe road tests.
1961 Financial Times 31 Jan. 9/7 The dealer may offer..a ‘demonstration model’ at a substantial discount off list price.
1989 T. L. McNaugher New Weapons, Old Politics i. 4 In 1938 the British Postal Service paid an inventor to build a demonstration model that quickly proved the engine's merit.
2012 Plymouth Herald (Nexis) 10 Oct. 9 Buying a demonstration model or a vehicle that's a year or two old could save you a lot of money.
demonstration record n. (a) a gramophone record used to demonstrate the capabilities of a piece of hi-fi equipment, or of the type of record itself (now rare); (b) a recording made to demonstrate or display the abilities of a singer, musician, or group, or to promote a new song, style of music, etc., esp. to record companies, disc jockeys, and agents; = demo disc n. at demo n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1911 Washington Post 17 Feb. 16/5 (advt.) Talking machine owners... Once more we call your attention to the Columbia double-disc special 10c demonstration record.
1952 Billboard 8 Nov. 59/3 Heretofore, the AFM [= American Federation of Musicians] has failed to recognize demonstration records as apart from regular commercial disks.
1969 Rolling Stone 17 May 9/2 I have new songs offered to me every week. Here's one, for example, with a letter, sheet music and a demonstration record.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 28 Dec. Its spirited performance and diverse content, combined with the clarity of a direct-disc, created the perfect demonstration record. One cut from the album, a version of Cat Stevens' Peace Train, was especially popular among stereo salesmen.
2011 D. Warwick in Philadelphia Tribune 23 Sept. 6 Burt approached me and asked if I'd be interested in doing some demonstration records for songs he'd be writing with a new songwriting partner, Hal David.
demonstration school n. = laboratory school n. (b) at laboratory n. Compounds 4.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > teacher training college > laboratory school
laboratory school1861
lab school1887
demonstration school1896
1896 J. J. Findlay in Univ. Rec. (Univ. Chicago) 30 Oct. 410/2 A good university demonstration school..has the immense advantage of a large staff of professors, teachers and students engaged especially in studying the character and fostering the interests of the children... I call the school a ‘demonstration’ school because its main purpose is to realize in the life the doctrines expounded in the school of pedagogy.
1908 J. J. Findlay Demonstr. Schools Rec. 1 v. 73 It has been shown how the programme of a Demonstration School can be utilised by a University Department.
1936 Times 14 Feb. 15/4 It [sc. the Froebel Institute] also serves a valuable purpose as demonstration school of the Froebel Training College.
2011 W. E. Ellis Hist. Educ. Kentucky vii. 307 With the exception of the Model Laboratory School at Eastern Kentucky University, all the state institutions of higher learning closed their demonstration schools.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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