different between presentation vs exhibition

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

Etymology

From Old French exhibicion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks??b???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

exhibition (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitions)

1. An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
2. A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

   a boat exhibition

3. A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shamfeul exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
4. (Britain) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 352:

     He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

   • 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:

     Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.

5. (sports) A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

Derived terms

• exhibitionism
• exhibitionist
• make an exhibition of oneself
• Exhibition Road

Related terms

• exposition

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhibiti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zi.bi.sj??/

Noun

exhibition f (plural exhibitions)

1. (sports) exhibition, friendly
2. (document) presentation, production
3. showing off, outrageous behaviour

Derived terms

• match d'exhibition
• exhibitionnisme
• exhibitionniste

Further reading

• “exhibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).