tommybrle @ 2010-05-19T11: 55:00
di·a·logue or di·a·log
n.
1. A conversation between two or more people.
[Middle English dialog, from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos, conversation, from dialegesthai, to discuss; see dialect.]
2.
a. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
b. The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken.
3. A literary work written in the form of a conversation: the dialogues of Plato.
4. Music A composition or passage for two or more parts, suggestive of conversational interplay.
5. An exchange of ideas or opinions: achieving constructive dialogue with all political elements.
v. di·a·logued or di·a·loged, di·a·logu·ing or di·a·log·ing, di·a·logues or di·a·logs
v.tr.
To express as or in a dialogue.
v.intr.
1. To converse in a dialogue.
2. Usage Problem To engage in an informal exchange of views.
dialogue
a frank exchange of ideas, spoken or written, for the purpose of meeting in harmony.
dialogue, dialog box
n.
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option.
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