different between webinar vs meeting

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mit??/, [?mi???]
• Rhymes: -i?t??
• Homophone: meting

Etymology 1

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English m?ting, ?em?ting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:

     You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Usage notes

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

Synonyms

• assembly
• convocation
• gathering

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English m?tende, *?em?tende, from Proto-Germanic *m?tijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), equivalent to meet +? -ing.

Verb

meeting

1. present participle of meet

Anagrams

• teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

• mítink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mi?t??k]

Noun

meeting m

1. meeting

Further reading

• meeting in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ti?/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.tin?/, /?mi.tin/
• Hyphenation: mee?ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /?mi.t?.?(?)/, [?mi.t?.?(?)]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.)

   Synonym: conferência

2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.)

   Synonym: encontro

3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.)

   Synonym: prova

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mitin/, [?mi.t??n]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting