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Prologue vs Fluent - What's the difference?

prologue | fluent |

As a noun prologue

is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

As a verb prologue

is to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

As an adjective fluent is

that flows; flowing, liquid.

prologue

Alternative forms

* prolog

Noun

(en noun)
  • A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
  • One who delivers a prologue.
  • * 1602 , :
  • And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
  • (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
  • Antonyms

    * (speech or section) epilogue

    Derived terms

    * prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuize

    Verb

    (prologu)
  • To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
  • (Shakespeare)

    References

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    fluent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That flows; flowing, liquid.
  • fluent handwriting
  • *, II.12:
  • For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent , without ever being stable or permanent.
  • (linguistics) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
  • Usage notes

    In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency'' broadly, while in narrow use it refers to speaking a language ''flowingly, rather than haltingly.

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