different between salute vs presentation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sal?t? (“to greet; to wish health to”), from sal?s (“greeting, good health”), related to salvus (“safe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??l(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??lut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Hyphenation: sa?lute

Noun

salute (plural salutes)

1. An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. [from 15th c.]
2. A kiss, offered in salutation. [from 16th c.]
   • 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 8 May:

     [M]aking an apology which, not suspecting his intention, I did not understand, – he gave me a most ardent salute! I have seldom been more surprised. I had no idea of his taking such a freedom.

3. (military, nautical) A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. [from 17th c.]
4. A pyrotechnic device primarily designed to produce a loud bang.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

salute (third-person singular simple present salutes, present participle saluting, simple past and past participle saluted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a gesture in honor of (someone or something).
   • 1943 June 19, New York Times, quoted in 2000, Terry Eastland, Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases, page 64,

     Yet the simple fact stands that a school child compelled to salute the flag, when he has been taught the flag is an "image" which the Bible forbids him to worship, is in effect made to say what he does not believe.
2. To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise.
3. (Ireland, informal) to wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance.

4. To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
5. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
6. (archaic) To kiss.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 220:

     Twice indeed with rapture, which once she called rude, did I salute her; and each time, resenting the freedom, did she retire […] .

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     [T]his young gentleman, who was naturally facetious, in taking his leave, saluted us all round. My lord, who had before entertained some jealousy of his kinsman, was very much provoked by this trifling incident […] .

Derived terms

• saluter

Related terms

• salubrious
• salutary
• salutation

Translations

See also

• hello, hi
• gesundheit
• toast
• greet, greeting
• to your health, bless you

Further reading

• salute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aleuts, setula

Corsican

Interjection

salute

1. hello, hi

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sal?tem, accusative singular of sal?s, from Proto-Indo-European *solh?- (“whole, completed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?lu.te/

Noun

salute f (plural saluti)

1. health, wellbeing

Interjection

salute!

1. cheers!
2. bless you!

Anagrams

• esulta

Latin

Noun

sal?te

1. ablative singular of sal?s

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?lyte/

Noun

salute f

1. health, wellbeing

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa?lute]

Verb

salute

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of saluta
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of saluta

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