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Presentation

noun

The activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward).

A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view. Synonyms: demonstration, presentment. "He gave the customer a demonstration"

The act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it.

The act of presenting a proposal.

A visual representation of something. Synonym: display.

Formally making a person known to another or to the public. Synonyms: intro, introduction.

(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal.

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"Presentation" Quotes from Famous Books

... music, he would probably speak of "form," contrapuntal design, and the like. Let us take up the matter of form. If by the word "form" our theorists meant the most poignant expression of poetic thought in music, if they meant by this word the art of arranging musical sounds into the most telling presentation of a musical idea, I should have nothing to say: for if this were admitted instead of the recognized forms of modern theorists for the proper utterance, we should possess a study of the power of musical sounds which might truly justify the title of musical intellectuality. ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... the Federalist legislation. Madison, many years afterward, explained that he meant only an appeal to the other States to unite in deprecation of the measures. The immediate effect was to set up a sort of political platform, about which the opponents of the Federalists might rally, and by the presentation of a definite issue to keep up the Republican organization against ...

— Formation of the Union • Albert Bushnell Hart

... Derby's answer was delayed, through no fault of his own, and when in November Howe brought out an edition of his collected speeches and public letters, he took advantage of the opportunity to send presentation copies, with long letters, to Lord John Russell, Lord Derby, Sir E. B. Lytton, Mr Merivale, the permanent under-secretary of the Colonial Office, and to several other men of influence. To the colonial secretary he complained ...

— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant

... The presentation over, we wandered through the spacious apartments, leaning from the open windows to hear the music of the band playing in the courtyard below, looking at the royal portraits, and chatting with groups of friends who appeared and reappeared ...

— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... Livingstone fought with her imagination in accounting for Lindsay's absence from the theatre on the first night of a notable presentation by Miss Hilda Howe, he sat with his knees crossed on the bench farthest back and the corner obscurest of the Salvation Army Headquarters in Bentinck Street. It had become his accustomed place; sitting there he had begun to feel like the adventurer under Niagara, ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

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