Feign vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
feign | demonstration |
To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
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To hide or conceal.
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:
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)- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- 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.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
Synonyms
* (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airsdemonstration
English
Noun
(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.