Dictionary vs Conversation - What's the difference?
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A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.
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By extension, any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g. biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
(label) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.
* 2011 , Jon Galloway, ?Phil Haack, ?Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3
(label) To look up in a dictionary.
(label) To add to a dictionary.
* 1866 , William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph (page 12)
* 2001 , The Michigan Alumnus (page 25)
To compile a dictionary.
* 1864 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 96, page 334)
(label) To appear in a dictionary.
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
* 1699 , ,
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
* , chapter=12
, title= (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XI:
(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
(computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
(nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
* 1983 , James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
* 1989 , Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia
* 2002 , Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays
As nouns the difference between dictionary and conversation
is that dictionary is a reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word's meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data while conversation is conversation.As a verb dictionary
is (label) to look up in a dictionary.dictionary
English
Noun
(dictionaries)- But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries' such as Hornby's (1974) ''Oxford Advanced Learner's '''Dictionary of Current English'' include not only ''categorial'' information in their entries, but also information about the range of ''Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
- User calls
RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in aRequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
Synonyms
* wordbookDerived terms
* encyclopedic dictionary * explanatory dictionary * fictionary * pedagogical dictionary * Pictionary * pronunciation dictionary * subdictionary * translating dictionary * translationarySee also
* lexicon * encyclopedia * vocabularyAnagrams
*Verb
(en-verb)- By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
- Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried .
- They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying ; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
conversation
English
(wikipedia conversation)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation , grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
- Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.
- There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation , and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
- (Ariadne)quitted her Lover (Theseus), for the tumultuous Conversation of (Bacchus).
- The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.
Synonyms
* (expression and exchange of ideas through talking) banter, chat, chinwag, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, powwow, table talkDerived terms
* conversational * conversation pieceUsage notes
* To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence. * To have' a conversation, and to ' hold a conversation, both mean to converse. * SeeVerb
(en verb)- Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
- ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
- After all this conversationing , Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.