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Feign vs Demonstration - What's the difference?

feign | demonstration |

As a verb feign

is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.

As a noun demonstration is

the act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.

feign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
  • The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
    They feigned her signature on the cheque.
  • To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
  • He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
  • To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
  • Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
  • To hide or conceal.
  • Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.

    Synonyms

    * (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airs

    demonstration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  • An event at which something will be demonstrated.
  • I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  • A public display of group opinion.
  • A show of military force.
  • A mathematical proof.
  • * , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
  • He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.