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Dialogue vs Chandlerism - What's the difference?

dialogue | chandlerism |

As a verb dialogue

is .

As a noun chandlerism is

a passage of writing or dialogue that uses vivid and lyrical metaphors or similes, characteristic of the work of writer.

dialogue

English

Alternative forms

* (US and computing) dialog

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    Antonyms

    * introspection * monologue * multilogue

    Derived terms

    ( conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals) * dialogic * dialogical * dialogically * dialogism * dialogist * dialogistic * dialogistically * dialogize * modal dialogue

    Related terms

    * dialect * dialectic

    Verb

    (dialogu)
  • (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.
  • (obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
    • (Shakespeare)

    chandlerism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passage of writing or dialogue that uses vivid and lyrical metaphors or similes, characteristic of the work of writer .
  • * 1982 The Review of the news , Volume 18
    • As Rigby Reardon, Steve Martin easily mimics the patented Hollywood tough guy of the period, dangling a cigarette from one side of his mouth while distorting a Chandlerism from the other.
  • * 1999 Anthony Boucher, letter to Kenneth Millar, published in Tom Nolan (1999) Ross Macdonald: a biography, p114
    • I'm especially struck with the way you turn the Chandlerism , the colorful unlikely metaphor or simile, into legitimate novelistic indication of character, rather than trick writing for its own sake.
  • * 2002 Film noir reader 3: interviews with filmmakers of the classic noir period, Limelight, p110
    • The funny thing is, Chandler would come up with a good image, pictorial, and like I said I would come up with a Chandlerism , as it were.
    English eponyms