different between presentation vs entertainment

English

Alternative forms

• præsentation (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesent?ti?nem, accusative singular of praesent?ti? (“representation, exhibition”).Morphologically present +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US, UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??z?n?te???n/, /?p?iz?n?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)

1. The act of presenting, or something presented
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

2. A dramatic performance
3. An award given to someone on a special occasion
4. Money given as a wedding gift.
5. A lecture or speech given in front of an audience
6. (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."
7. (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth
8. (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent
9. (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
10. The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.

    • If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

11. (immunology) The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response

Derived terms

Related terms

• presentational
• presentationally

Translations

Anagrams

• penetrations

Old French

Noun

presentation f (oblique plural presentations, nominative singular presentation, nominative plural presentations)

1. presentation (act of presenting something or someone)
2. presentation (demonstration)

Descendants

• ? English: presentation
• French: présentation

Swedish

Etymology

From French présentation, from présenter + -ation, equivalent to presentera +? -ation. Cognate with English presentation, German Präsentation, Norwegian Bokmål presentasjon, Norwegian Nynorsk presentasjon and Danish præsentation.

Noun

presentation c

1. a presentation

Declension

Related terms

• presentatör
• presentera

Anagrams

• prestationen

English

Alternative forms

• entretainment (chiefly archaic)
• intertainment (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English entretenement (“support, maintenance”), from Old French entretenement; see entertain.

Morphologically entertain +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.t??te?n.m?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nm?nt

Noun

entertainment (countable and uncountable, plural entertainments)

1. 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.
2. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
3. (obsolete) Maintenance or support.
4. (obsolete) Admission into service; service.
5. (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
   • Sir John Davies

     The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

6. (obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold

     Can in this desert place buy entertainment,

     Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 61,^[2]

     Tho’ they cut [the beef] into long Pieces, (like Ropes) with the Hide; and dress’d, and eat it half-roasted according to their Custom, and gave it me in the same Manner; yet I thought this contemptible Food, and what a Beggar in England would not have touch’d, the most delicious Entertainment I ever met with.

Translations

Further reading

• entertainment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• entertainment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• entertainment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• entretainment