Intimation vs Representation - What's the difference?
intimation | representation | Related terms |
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
* (Holland)
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
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* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :
That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
Intimation is a related term of representation.
As nouns the difference between intimation and representation
is that intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated while representation is representation.intimation
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Noun
(en noun)- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
representation
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(wikipedia representation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d