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Presentation vs Entertainment - What's the difference?

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Presentation is a related term of entertainment.


As nouns the difference between presentation and entertainment

is that presentation is the act of presenting while entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

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.

    Anagrams

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    entertainment

    English

    (wikipedia entertainment)

    Alternative forms

    * entretainment (chiefly archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
  • *
  • a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
  • (obsolete) maintenance or support
  • *
  • Admission into service; service.
  • *
  • (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
  • *
    • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

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