dialog
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From Middle English dialog (“A literary discussion or a work written as one”), from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
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dialog (countable and uncountable, plural dialogs) (American spelling)
- A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- 2014, Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, “Explaining Extreme Events”, in American Meteorological Society[2], archived from the original on 17 April 2015:
- As we conclude our third annual report on explaining extreme events, the dialog around the value of attribution science is intensifying (Kerr 2013).
- In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
- A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
- 1475, Higden's Polychronicon:
- Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle.
- (computing) A dialog box.
- 2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications:
- You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose […]
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dialog (third-person singular simple present dialogs, present participle dialoging, simple past and past participle dialoged)
- (American spelling, informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
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dialog m inan
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dialog (first-person possessive dialogku, second-person possessive dialogmu, third-person possessive dialognya)
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Borrowed from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos).
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dialog (plural dialogges)
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- “dīalō̆g, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-20.
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dia- + -log; from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγωμαι (dialégōmai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
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dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialoger, definite plural dialogene)
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- “dialog” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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dia- + -log; from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγωμαι (dialégōmai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
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dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialogar, definite plural dialogane)
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- “dialog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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dialog m inan
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Borrowed from French dialogue.
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dialog n (plural dialoguri)
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nominative/accusative | (un) dialog | dialogul | (niște) dialoge | dialogele |
genitive/dative | (unui) dialog | dialogului | (unor) dialoge | dialogelor |
vocative | dialogule | dialogelor |
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Audio (file)
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dialog c
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Nominative | dialog | dialogen | dialoger | dialogerna |
Genitive | dialogs | dialogens | dialogers | dialogernas |