demonstrate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin dēmonstrō, dēmonstrātus (“I show”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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", 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
- 2016, David A. Graham, “Donald Trump's Disastrous Debate”, in The Atlantic, page http://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2016/10/second-presidential-debate-clinton-trump/503495/:
- The debate was not long on policy, as questions about the Affordable Care Act and the war in Syria demonstrated.
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of demonstrate
infinitive | demonstrate | ||||||||||
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present participle | demonstrating | ||||||||||
past participle | demonstrated | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I demonstrate | we demonstrate | I am demonstrating | we are demonstrating | I have demonstrated | we have demonstrated | I have been demonstrating | we have been demonstrating | |||
you demonstrate | you demonstrate | you are demonstrating | you are demonstrating | you have demonstrated | you have demonstrated | you have been demonstrating | you have been demonstrating | ||||
he demonstrates | they demonstrate | he is demonstrating | they are demonstrating | he has demonstrated | they have demonstrated | he has been demonstrating | they have been demonstrating | ||||
past | I demonstrated | we demonstrated | I was demonstrating | we were demonstrating | I had demonstrated | we had demonstrated | I had been demonstrating | we had been demonstrating | |||
you demonstrated | you demonstrated | you were demonstrating | you were demonstrating | you had demonstrated | you had demonstrated | you had been demonstrating | you had been demonstrating | ||||
he demonstrated | they demonstrated | he was demonstrating | they were demonstrating | he had demonstrated | they had demonstrated | he had been demonstrating | they had been demonstrating | ||||
future | I will demonstrate | we will demonstrate | I will be demonstrating | we will be demonstrating | I will have demonstrated | we will have demonstrated | I will have been demonstrating | we will have been demonstrating | |||
you will demonstrate | you will demonstrate | you will be demonstrating | you will be demonstrating | you will have demonstrated | you will have demonstrated | you will have been demonstrating | you will have been demonstrating | ||||
he will demonstrate | they will demonstrate | he will be demonstrating | they will be demonstrating | he will have demonstrated | they will have demonstrated | he will have been demonstrating | they will have been demonstrating | ||||
conditional | I would demonstrate | we would demonstrate | I would be demonstrating | we would be demonstrating | I would have demonstrated | we would have demonstrated | I would have been demonstrating | we would have been demonstrating | |||
you would demonstrate | you would demonstrate | you would be demonstrating | you would be demonstrating | you would have demonstrated | you would have demonstrated | you would have been demonstrating | you would have been demonstrating | ||||
he would demonstrate | they would demonstrate | he would be demonstrating | they would be demonstrating | he would have demonstrated | they would have demonstrated | he would have been demonstrating | they would have been demonstrating | ||||
imperative | demonstrate |
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to show how to use something
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to show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation
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to participate in a demonstration
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See alsoEdit
EsperantoEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
demonstrate
- present adverbial passive participle of demonstri
IdoEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
demonstrate
- adverbial present passive participle of demonstrar
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
dēmōnstrāte
ParticipleEdit
dēmōnstrāte