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Lesson vs Presentation - What's the difference?

lesson | presentation |

As nouns the difference between lesson and presentation

is that lesson is a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided while presentation is the act of presenting.

As a verb lesson

is to give a lesson to; to teach.

lesson

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
  • A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
  • Something learned or to be learned.
  • Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
  • A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
  • A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
    • She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (religious reading) lection

    Derived terms

    * object lesson * private lessons

    Related terms

    * lectern * lection * lecture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give a lesson to; to teach.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
    • her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
  • * Byron
    • To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "lesson") *

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    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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