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Commentary vs Presentation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between commentary and presentation

is that commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work while presentation is the act of presenting, or something presented.

commentary

English

(wikipedia commentary) (Webster 1913)

Noun

(commentaries)
  • A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
    • This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).
  • A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
  • An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

    • Derived terms

    * audio commentary * commentary track * DVD commentary * political commentary * social commentary * supercommentary

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    presentation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia presentation) (en noun)
  • The act of presenting, or something presented
  • * Hooker
    • Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
  • A dramatic performance
  • An award given to someone on a special occasion
  • A lecture or speech given in front of an audience
  • (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation."
  • (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth
  • (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent
  • (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
  • The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
  • * Blackstone
    • If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

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