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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

... of presenting names on lists is gone through beforehand; at the actual presentation an "accepted" name is repeated from functionary to equerry and nothing is said to the King or Queen ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... So they had the "Presentation Game;" and the gifts, and the dispositions, and the consequences, when the whispers were over, and they were all declared aloud, were such hits and jumbles of sense and nonsense as were almost too queer to have ...

— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a composite and proportionate presentation of the entire race, embracing all of its various groups and elements, showing their relations with each other and to the whites, ...

— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson

... was placed on the committee to prepare the address, and was chosen to write their report, which was adopted and published. This important document, widely known at the time as the "Rockingham Memorial," was a careful argument against the war, and a vigorous and able presentation of the Federalist views. It was addressed to the President, whom it treated with respectful severity. With much skill it turned Mr. Madison's own arguments against himself, and appealed to public opinion by its clear ...

— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... seems to me a treachery to Keats's memory to belittle a woman who was at least the occasion of such a passionate expenditure of genius. Sir Sidney Colvin does his best to be fair to Fanny, but his presentation of the story of Keats's love for her will, I am afraid, be regarded by the long line of her disparagers as an endorsement ...

— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd

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