Noun

(en noun)

A period devoted to a particular activity.

a training session

"Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."

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A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.

This court is now in session .

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.

(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

* Hooker

So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

* Tennyson

But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

Noun

(en noun)

A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.

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In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.

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A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

* 1475 , Higden's Polychronicon :

Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle.

(computing) A dialog box.

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