Presentation vs Assignation - What's the difference?
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The act of presenting, or something presented
* Hooker
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
An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
* Alexander Pope
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
* Holland
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Presentation is a related term of assignation.
As nouns the difference between presentation and assignation
is that presentation is the act of presenting while assignation is an appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.presentation
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* (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia presentation) (en noun)- Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
- If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
Anagrams
* ----assignation
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Noun
(en noun)- While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
- 1749' ''As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his '''assignation . — John Cleland, ''
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
- This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.