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Demonstrate vs Similitude - What's the difference?

demonstrate | similitude |

As a verb demonstrate

is to display the method of using an object.

As a noun similitude is

(uncountable) similarity or resemblance to something else.

demonstrate

English

Verb

(demonstrat)
  • To display the method of using an object.
  • To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
  • To participate in or organize a demonstration.

    • Related terms

    * demo * demonstrable * demonstration * demonstratedly * monster * monstrance * remonstrate

    See also

    * show * prove ----

    similitude

    English

    (wikipedia similitude)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '''Aemulation''' was '     similitude     within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '     Aemulation     was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
  • * Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
    • If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.
  • A parable or allegory.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
    • And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].