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Feedback vs Suggestion - What's the difference?

feedback | suggestion |

As nouns the difference between feedback and suggestion

is that feedback is critical assessment on information produced while suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for.

As a verb feedback

is to generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.

feedback

English

(wikipedia feedback)

Noun

(-)
  • Critical assessment on information produced
    • After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback .
  • (cybernetics, systems) The signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.
  • The high-pitched howling noise heard when there's a loop between a microphone and a speaker.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "feedback": positive, negative, delayed, linear, nonlinear, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (noise) Larsen effect * (noise) howlback * (noise) howlround

    Derived terms

    * biofeedback * feedbacker * feedback loop * feedback control * howlback * negative feedback * positive feedback

    Coordinate terms

    * feedforward * buffering

    Descendants

    * Spanish: (calque)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
    • The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
  • To provide informational feedback to.
    • His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
  • To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
    • Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.

    Usage notes

    * Some are likely to prefer "feed back" and its inflected forms "feeds back", "feeding back", or "fed back". ----

    suggestion

    English

    (wikipedia suggestion)

    Noun

  • (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
    • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
  • (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
    • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  • (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
    • He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    Synonyms

    * (something suggested) proposal * See also

    Derived terms

    * autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion box

    Related terms

    * suggest * suggestive