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Demonstration vs Signifying - What's the difference?

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Demonstration is a related term of signifying.


As a noun demonstration

is demonstration (act of showing and explaining).

As a verb signifying is

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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.

    Related terms

    * demonstrable * demonstrate * demonstrator * monster * remonstration

    signifying

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * (c. 1603), Act V, Scene V:
    • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    and then is heard no more: it is a tale
    told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    signifying nothing.