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Lecture vs Presentation - What's the difference?

lecture | presentation |

As nouns the difference between lecture and presentation

is that lecture is (a spoken lesson) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group while presentation is the act of presenting, or something presented.

As a verb lecture

is (to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

lecture

English

(wikipedia lecture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • A berating or scolding.
  • (obsolete) The act of reading.

    • Verb

    (lectur)
  • (senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
  • To preach, to berate, to scold.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * lecturer

    Related terms

    * analects * lectern * lection * lesson ----

    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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