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dialogue
has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] a conversation between two persons
Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)And the subtleties of the dialogue are most helpfully conveyed . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` It does n't drown_out the dialogue '' , I explained . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Synonyms Examples "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek" Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)`` Just you wait '' , advised Arlene , echoing the dialogue in a recent British movie . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)The complexities of communication have been considerably abetted in this case by appropriately stilted English_language that has been excellently dubbed in_place_of the Russian dialogue . (The Providence Journal...)The dialogue is sharp , witty and candid - typical `` do n't eat the daisies '' material - which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays , and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a discussion intended to produce an agreement
Synonyms Examples "the buyout negotiation lasted several days" "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue" "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" |
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