dialogue
See also: dialogué and dialog
English
Alternative forms
- (US): dialog
Etymology
From Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late 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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪəlɔɡ/
- (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪəlɑɡ/
- (US)
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Noun
dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)
- A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- Bill and Melinda maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
- Start up a dialogue
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 200:
- Guido and Francesca exchanged looks; for the attention with which both had listened had enabled them to comprehend with tolerable accuracy the preceding dialogue.
- 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)
- The hours of dialogue with Winfrey, which culminated in a choked-up moment on Friday night as he discussed the impact of his cheating on his family, appear to have failed to give Armstrong the redemption that he craves.
- (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
- The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
- 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 42:
- In 1936, Anstey had co-directed Housing Problems, which featured direct dialogue recording - allowing the subjects of the film to speak for themselves. As Anstey said: "At the time nobody had done it, and we gave slum dwellers a chance to make their own films."
- (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
- A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
- (computing) A dialogue box.
- Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.
Hyponyms
- modal dialogue
Derived terms
conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals
- dialogue tag
- Platonic dialogue
- punch dialogue
- dialogic
- dialogical
- dialogically
- dialogism
- dialogist
- dialogistic
- dialogistically
- dialogize
Related terms
- dialect
- dialectic
Translations
conversation or other discourse between individuals
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verbal part of a literary or dramatic work
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literary form resembling a conversation
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computing: dialogue box
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See also
- introspection
- monologue
- trialogue
- quadralogue
- multilogue
References
Dialogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
dialogue (third-person singular simple present dialogues, present participle dialoguing, simple past and past participle dialogued)
- (informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
- Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
- (transitive) To put into dialogue form.
- (obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page [55]:
- Dost [thou] dialogue with thy shadow?
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Translations
discuss
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French
Etymology
From Late 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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dja.lɔɡ/
Audio (file)
Noun
dialogue m (plural dialogues)
- dialogue
Derived terms
- dialogue de sourds
Descendants
- → Turkish: diyalog
Verb
dialogue
- inflection of dialoguer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Descendants
- → Turkish: diyalog
Further reading
- “dialogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Verb
dialogue
- inflection of dialogar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative