Feedback vs Report - What's the difference?
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Critical assessment on information produced
(cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
(music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
To provide informational feedback to.
To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
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, title= (label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
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(label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
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(label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
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(label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
(label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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(label) To be accountable.
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To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
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To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
(label) To refer.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times
A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.
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(ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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* 1883:
an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager
As nouns the difference between feedback and report
is that feedback is critical assessment on information produced while report is report (all senses).As a verb feedback
is (music) to generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.feedback
English
(wikipedia feedback)Noun
(-)- After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.Synonyms
* (noise) Larsen effect * (noise) howlback * (noise) howlroundDerived terms
* biofeedback * feedbacker * feedback loop * feedback control * howlback * negative feedback * positive feedbackCoordinate terms
* feedforward * bufferingDescendants
* Spanish: (calque)Verb
(en verb)- The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
- His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
- Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.
Usage notes
* Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back". ----report
English
(wikipedia report)Verb
(en verb)Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported
Derived terms
* reporter * underreportNoun
(en noun)- A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
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- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- ...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.