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Presentation vs Meeting - What's the difference?

presentation | meeting |

As nouns the difference between presentation and meeting

is that presentation is the act of presenting while meeting is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .

As a verb meeting is

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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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    meeting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

    • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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