conference

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n conference a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic
  • n conference an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
  • n conference a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)
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• Interesting fact: The 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV was in 1955. Eisenhower was the president.
• • Conference A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
  • Conference A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
  • Conference (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
  • Conference A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
  • Conference The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison. "Helps and furtherances which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford."
  • Conference The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views. "Nor with such free and friendly conference As he hath used of old."
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• • n conference Comparison; examination of things by comparison.
  • n conference The act of conferring or consulting together; a meeting for consultation, discussion, or instruction; an interview and comparison or interchange of opinions. Specifically— In diplomacy, a more or less informal meeting of the representatives of different foreign countries.
  • n conference In British and American parliamentary usage, a species of negotiation between the two houses of Parliament or of Congress, conducted by managers appointed on both sides, for the purpose of reconciling differences.
  • n conference Eccles.: The annual assembly of ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England, for transacting business of an ecclesiastical nature.
  • n conference In the Meth. Epis. Ch. of America, the title of four judicatories: (i.) An assembly, called the general conference, which meets once every four years, is composed of ministerial and lay delegates from the annual conferences, and is presided over by a general superintendent.
  • n conference (ii.) One of a number (now over 100) of assemblies, called annual conferences, which meet annually, take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters, collect statistics relating to the church, and have charge of benevolent contributions, current expenses, etc.
  • n conference (iii.) An assembly of the itinerant and local preachers, the exhorters, the stewards of a district, and a class-leader and Sunday-school superintendent from each pastoral charge, called the district conference, meeting annually or semi-annually.
  • n conference (iv.) An assembly, termed the quarterly conference, of all the itinerant and local preachers, exhorters. stewards, class-leaders, trustees of churches, and first superintendents of Sunday-schools, in a circuit or station, under the presidency of a presiding elder. It hears complaints and appeals, examines into the character of preachers, licenses ministers, tries those against whom charges are preferred, and makes appointments and removals.
  • n conference In the Rom. Cath. Ch.: (i.) A voluntary local assembly of priests; a pastoral conference.
  • n conference (ii.) An assembly of priests called by a college; a chapter conference.
  • n conference In some Protestant churches, as the Congregational, a local assembly of representatives from several neighboring churches.
  • n conference Discourse; talk; conversation.
  • n conference A lecture.
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• • Conference the act of conferring: an appointed meeting for instruction or discussion
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• Fred A. Allen

  

  “A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
• Niccolo Machiavelli

  

  “Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”
• Publilius Syrus

  

  “To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
• Publilius Syrus

  

  “When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”
• David Lloyd George

  

  “Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
• Lord Greville

  

  “A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”

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