dialogue (redirected from dialoging)

di·a·logue or di·a·log  (d-lôg, -lg)

n.

1. A conversation between two or more people.

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.

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[Middle English dialog, from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos, conversation, from dialegesthai, to discuss; see dialect.]

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dia·loguer n.

Usage Note: In recent years the verb sense of dialogue meaning "to engage in an informal exchange of views" has been revived, particularly with reference to communication between parties in institutional or political contexts. Although Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Carlyle used it, this usage today is widely regarded as jargon or bureaucratese. Ninety-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejects the sentence Critics have charged that the department was remiss in not trying to dialogue with representatives of the community before hiring the new officers.

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dialogue or US sometimes dialog

Noun

1. conversation between two people

2. a conversation in a literary or dramatic work

3. a discussion between representatives of two nations or groups [Greek dia- between + legein to speak]

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dialogue

a frank exchange of ideas, spoken or written, for the purpose of meeting in harmony.

See also: Agreement

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	dialogue - a conversation between two persons dialog, duologue talk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"
	2.	dialogue - the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction dialog playscript, script, book - a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance duologue - a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors actor's line, words, speech - words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"
	3.	dialogue - a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek" dialog literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing
	4.	dialogue - a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" negotiation, talks give-and-take, discussion, word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" parley - a negotiation between enemies diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations - negotiation between nations bargaining - the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement collective bargaining - negotiation between an employer and trade union horse trading - negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining mediation - a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party

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dialogue

noun 1. discussion, conference, exchange, debate, confabulation

noun 2. conversation, discussion, communication, discourse, converse, colloquy, confabulation, duologue, interlocution

noun 3. script, conversation, lines, spoken part

Translations

dialogue (US), dialog [ˈdaɪəlɔg] n → diálogo

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dialogue (US), dialog [ˈdaɪəlɔg] n → dialogue m

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dialogue (US) dialog [ˈdaɪəlɔg] n → Dialog m;

(conversation) → Gespräch nt, Dialog m

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dialogue [ˈdaɪəlɔg] n → dialogo