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Presentation vs Description - What's the difference?

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Presentation is a related term of description.


As nouns the difference between presentation and description

is that presentation is the act of presenting while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

presentation

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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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    description

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • (biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

    Synonyms

    * (characteristics) sort, kind, type, variety

    See also

    * synopsis * interpretation

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