Respectable vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
respectable | demonstration |
Deserving respect.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
Decent; satisfactory.
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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 an adjective respectable
is deserving respect.As a noun demonstration is
demonstration (act of showing and explaining).respectable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* disrespectableDerived terms
* respectablydemonstration
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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.