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Parade vs Demonstration - What's the difference?

parade | demonstration |

As a verb parade

is .

As a noun demonstration is

demonstration (act of showing and explaining).

parade

English

(wikipedia parade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
  • The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
  • Any succession, series, or display of items.
  • The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
    a parade of shops
  • A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
  • The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
  • Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
  • (Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
  • * John Locke
  • when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
  • A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
  • He was parked on Chester Parade .

    Derived terms

    * hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's parade

    Verb

    (parad)
  • To march or to display.
  • They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
  • To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
  • They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
    Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
  • To march past.
  • After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

    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.