Presentation vs Presentment - 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
(legal) A statement made on oath by a jury.
* 1993 , Peter Kolchin, American Slavery , Penguin History, paperback edition, page 62:
(legal) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them.
(ecclesiastical law) A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.
* 1991 , Raymond Grant, The Royal Forests of England , Alan Sutton 1991:
The act of presenting something for acceptance; now specifically, presenting something (e.g. a bill or cheque) for payment.
* 2000 , Sarah Rose, "The Truth about Online Banking", Money , vol. 29.4:
* 1923 , "Arts: In Washington", Time , 21 Dec 1923:
Presentation of a performance, as of a play or work of music.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
As nouns the difference between presentation and presentment
is that presentation is the act of presenting, or something presented while presentment is a statement made on oath by a jury.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
* ----presentment
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Noun
(en noun)- In 1771, a grand jury presentment in Georgia revealed that "Slaves are permitted to rent houses [...]."
- the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, etc.
- He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers, and made provision for regular inquiries into it, and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts, as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre.
- When online bill presentment , which removes all the paperwork, becomes widespread, says McKinsey's Stephenson, online banking will be far more compelling.
- Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt.
- But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
- (Blackstone)