Representation vs Situation - What's the difference?
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That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) :
The place in which something is situated; a location.
* 1833 , Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory , page 142:
Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
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, passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
(UK, dated) A position of employment; a post.
* 1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) , Penguin 2006, page 78:
* 1946 , Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, :
A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
As nouns the difference between representation and situation
is that representation is representation while situation is .representation
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(wikipedia representation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
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* scituationNoun
(en noun)- ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
- [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
- When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
- You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
- And read the situations from the front to the back
- The only job that's open need a man with a knack
- So put it right back in the rack Jack.
- Boss, we've got a situation here...
