Presentation vs Boon - 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
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
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(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
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* 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
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(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
kind; bountiful; benign
* Milton
gay; merry; jovial; convivial
* Arbuthnot
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
Presentation is a related term of boon.
As nouns the difference between presentation and boon
is that presentation is the act of presenting while boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.As an adjective boon is
(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".presentation
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Alternative forms
* (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
* ----boon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For which to God he made so many an idle boon
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* blessing * benefitAntonyms
* baneEtymology 2
From (etyl) boon, bone, from .Adjective
(-)- Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.