Demonstration vs Counterdemonstrator - What's the difference?
demonstration | counterdemonstrator |
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time
*{{quote-news, year=1988, date=June 3, author=Elliot Zashin, title=Demonstration: An Incomplete Picture, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=I don't condone the crude and racist slogans that spontaneous counterdemonstrators yelled at the pro-Palestinian protestors. }}
As nouns the difference between demonstration and counterdemonstrator
is that demonstration is demonstration (act of showing and explaining) while counterdemonstrator is someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.demonstration
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(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
counterdemonstrator
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