Practical vs Presence - What's the difference?
practical | presence |
(British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
Based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis
Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use
Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical
The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
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A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
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Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
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A company's business activity in a particular market.
The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts
(philosophy) To make or become present.
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* 1985 , David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen ,
* 1998 , H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry ,
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804750718 (paperback),
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As nouns the difference between practical and presence
is that practical is (british) a part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability while presence is presence.As an adjective practical
is based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.practical
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking.
- Jack's knowledge has the practical benefit of giving us useful prototype parts.
- All in all, Jack's a very practical chap
Antonyms
* (based on practice or action) theoretical * (being likely to effective and applicable to a real situation) impractical * (of a person) impracticalDerived terms
* practicality * practicallyExternal links
* *presence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* absenceDerived terms
* compresence * copresence * presence of mind * real presence * stage presenceVerb
(presenc)page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced' without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are ' presenced .
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- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
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- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
