A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; hold/stage a demonstration (NOT make): ‘In London, students and lecturers staged a mass demonstration against the proposed education cuts.’ ‘Many demonstrations have been held in protest against the level of pollution.’
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Appear
Appear = (1) Become visible or be seen (suddenly): ‘Small red patches appeared all over the child’s back.’ ‘A minute later the manager appeared and asked what was wrong.’ (2) Become available or be seen for the first time (Of something new): ‘The first edition of the book appeared in 1987. ‘The new model will […]
Doctors for Children
Paediatrician is a combination of Greek paidos, child; iatreia, medical healing: and –ician, expert. Paediatrics (pee-di-AT’-riks), then, is by etymology the medical healing of a child. Adjective: paediatric (pee-di-AT’-rik). Pedagogy, which loses the ‘a’ but still combines paidos with agogos, leading, is, etymologically, the leading of children. And to what do you lead them? To […]
Fever
When someone feels rather ill and their body is hotter than usual, they have a (high) temperature: ‘I feel as if I’ve got a temperature.’ ‘She’s in bed with a high temperature.’ A fever usually refers to a (dangerously) high body temperature, or the disease that produces this: ‘In the streaming jungle he had contracted […]