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Reprimand vs Feedback - What's the difference?

reprimand | feedback |

As nouns the difference between reprimand and feedback

is that reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public while feedback is critical assessment on information produced.

As verbs the difference between reprimand and feedback

is that reprimand is to reprove in a formal or official way while feedback is (music) to generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.

reprimand

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  • * Macaulay
    • Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reprove in a formal or official way.
  • * 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
    • He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reprove

    feedback

    English

    (wikipedia feedback)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Critical assessment on information produced
    • After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback .
  • (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
  • The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (noise) Larsen effect * (noise) howlback * (noise) howlround

    Derived terms

    * biofeedback * feedbacker * feedback loop * feedback control * howlback * negative feedback * positive feedback

    Coordinate terms

    * feedforward * buffering

    Descendants

    * Spanish: (calque)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
    • The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
  • To provide informational feedback to.
    • His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
  • To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
    • Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

    Usage notes

    * Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back". ----