Prologue vs Fluent - What's the difference?
prologue | fluent |
A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
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, chapter=2 One who delivers a prologue.
* 1602 , :
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
That flows; flowing, liquid.
*, II.12:
(linguistics) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
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
English
(wikipedia prologue)Alternative forms
* prologNoun
(en noun)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. […]”}}
- And hither am I come, / A Prologue armed, but not in confidence / Of author's pen or actor's voice,
Antonyms
* (speech or section) epilogueDerived terms
* prologise / prologize / prologuise / prologuizeVerb
(prologu)- (Shakespeare)
References
*fluent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- fluent handwriting
- 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.