different between webinar vs conference

English

Alternative forms

• Webinar

Etymology

Blend of Web +? seminar.

Noun

webinar (plural webinars)

1. An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.

   I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.

   • 2002, Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content [1]:

     Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.

   • 2003, Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM [2]:

     Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.

   • 2003, Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women [3]:

     It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.

   • 2006, Selling Power, Volume 26, Issues 1-9, page 44:

     Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.

Related terms

• web conference
• webconferencing
• webcast

Translations

Further reading

• webinar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• wine bar, winebar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English webinar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.bi?n?r/, /???.b??n?r/
• Hyphenation: we?bi?nar

Noun

webinar n or m (plural webinars)

1. webinar

Related terms

• seminar
• seminarie
• seminarium

Spanish

Etymology

From English webinar.

Noun

webinar m (plural webinares)

1. webinar

English

Etymology

From Middle French conférence, from Medieval Latin conferentia, from Latin conferens.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f??ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f?.??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f?.??ns/, [?k???.f??ns], [?k???.f?n?s]

Noun

conference (plural conferences)

1. The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
2. (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
3. (sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
4. (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
5. (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
6. (Philippines, sports) A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
7. (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     helps and furtherances which […] the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford

8. (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
9. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• discussant, lecturer, parleyer, prelector, speaker.

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Verb

conference (third-person singular simple present conferences, present participle conferencing, simple past and past participle conferenced)

1. (transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
   • 2009, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom

     The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.