All 11 Uses of
demonstrate
in
Arrowsmith
- Any psychologist desiring a perfectly normal man for use in demonstrations could not have done better than to have engaged Irving Watters.†
Chpt 2
- But he was conscious that in the cotton-plugged test-tube between the instrument-bath and the bichloride jar on the demonstrator's desk were millions of fatal anthrax germs.†
Chpt 4
- On the demonstrator's table was a wooden tray, scarred from the tacks which for years had pinned down the corpses.†
Chpt 4
- To attend lectures on physical diagnosis, surgery, neurology, obstetrics, and gynecology in the morning, with hospital demonstrations in the afternoon; to supervise the making of media and the sterilization of glassware for Gottlieb; to instruct a new class in the use of the microscope and filter and autoclave; to read a page now and then of scientific German or French; to see Madeline constantly; to get through it all he drove himself to hysterical hurrying, and in the dizziest of it…†
Chpt 6
- And always Martin's work went on—assisting Max Gottlieb, instructing bacteriological students, attending lectures and hospital demonstrations—sixteen merciless hours to the day.†
Chpt 8
- Droning afternoons of hospital demonstrations, among stumbling students barked at by tired clinical professors.†
Chpt 8
- In that listless state he was mooning about the laboratory during elementary bacteriology demonstration hour, when Gottlieb sent him to the basement to bring up six male rabbits for inoculation.†
Chpt 9
- He held out a newspaper clipping in which, above a pen-and-ink caricature portraying him with large mustached head on a tiny body, was the headline: DOC PICKERBAUGH BANNER BOOSTER OF EVANGELINE COUNTY LEADS BIG GO-TO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION HERE Pickerbaugh looked it over, reflecting, "That was a dandy meeting!†
Chpt 19
- There was a W.C.T.U. booth at which celebrated clergymen and other physiologists would demonstrate the evils of alcohol.†
Chpt 23 *
- At noon, when the Eugenic Family were giving a demonstration of perfect vigor, their youngest blossom had an epileptic fit, and before the excitement was over, upon the Chicago anti-nicotine lady as she triumphantly assassinated a mouse charged an anti-vivisection lady, also from Chicago.†
Chpt 23
- Furthermore, a quantitative relation is demonstrated to exist between this inactivation and the radiations that produce it.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(demonstrate as in: It demonstrates my point.) to showThe exact meaning of this sense of demonstrate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "I will demonstrate how to throw a Frisbee." -- show how to do something
- "I will demonstrate how much quicker the new computer is than the old one." -- show how something works
- "Her questioned demonstrated that she was listening and thinking deeply about what was said." -- showed to be true or proved