dialoguedialogn.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪəlɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/,

/ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/

Forms: Old English dialogas (plural), Middle English dialege, Middle English dialoke, Middle English dialouge, Middle English–1500s dialogge, Middle English–1500s dyalog, Middle English–1500s dyaloge, Middle English–1500s dyologe, Middle English–1600s dyalogue, Middle English–1600s (1800s– chiefly U.S.) dialog, Middle English–1700s dialoge, Middle English– dialogue, 1500s diologgis (plural), 1500s–1600s diologe, 1500s–1600s diologue, 1600s diallogue, 1600s diolog; also Scottish pre-1700 diallog, pre-1700 dialog, pre-1700 dialoge, pre-1700 dyalog.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin dialogus; French dialogue.

Etymology: Originally (in Old English) < classical Latin dialogus (see below). Subsequently reinforced by or reborrowed < (i) Anglo-Norman and Old French dialoge, Anglo-Norman and Middle French dialogue, Middle French dyalogue (French dialogue ) conversation carried on between two or more people (c1200), literary work in the form of a conversation between two or more people (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin dialogus discussion, dispute, literary composition in the form of a conversation < ancient Greek διάλογος conversation, dialogue < δια- dia- prefix¹ + -λογος -logue comb. form, after διαλέγεσθαι to speak alternately, converse (see dialect n.). Compare Catalan diàleg (1507), Spanish diálogo (beginning of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diálogo (15th cent.; 14th cent. as †dialago), Italian dialogo (first half of the 14th cent.; 1306 as †dialago); also Middle Dutch dialoghe, dyaloghe (Dutch dialoog), German Dialog (second half of the 14th cent.; originally, and in early use often, with Latin inflectional endings).The Latin word (in genitive plural form) is also attested early in an English context in the title of the influential work by Gregory the Great Dialogorum libri quatuor , lit. ‘four books of dialogues’ (compare sense 1a):OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxi. 203 Swa swa gregorius se halga papa awrat on ðære bec þe is gehaten dialegorum.OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) ii. 94 (heading) Her onginneð seo æftre boc dialogorum.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 482 Her se eadiga abbod Benedictus þurh wuldor þara mihta þisum middanearde scan, eal swa se eadiga Gregorius recð on Dialogorum þare boc.

a. A literary work in the form of a conversation between two or more persons, in which opposing or contrasting views are imputed to the participants.In early use esp. with reference to the title of Gregory's Dialogues (see etymological note).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > dialogue

dialogueOE

dialogism1822

OE List of Bks., Worcester in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 250 Ðeo englissce passionale & II englissce dialogas [i.e. two copies of Gregory's Dialogues] & Oddan boc.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 61 Þis beoð sein gregories wordes in his dialege.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1157 (MED) Danyel in his dialokez devysed sumtyme.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 283 As Seynte Gregory rehersethe in the firste booke of his dialogges.

1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) Colophon sig. Iviii/2 Here endith a..dyalogue of Diues & pauper.

?1531 in F. J. Furnivall Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1866) 35 A Dyalog betwixt the gentylman and the plowman.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 872 Will you heare the Dialogue that the two Learned men haue compiled, in prayse of the Owle and the Cuckow?

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 275 Erasmus in his Dialogues..doth Lucian it too much.

1685 N. Boteler (title) Six dialogues about sea-services.

1733 A. Pope (title) The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated in a dialoge between Alexander Pope of Twickenham..and his learned council.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 156. ⁋7 Tragedy was a Monody..improved afterwards into a dialogue by the addition of another speaker.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 275 Plato, in one of his dialogues, introduces Anytus as vehemently offended with Socrates.

1882 Temperance Mirror Mar. 63 Uncle Job's Theory, A Dialogue [between 5 persons].

1910 H. Walker Lit. Victorian Era iii. iii. 1028 The form which best suited Landor was the dialogue.

1962 W. V. O'Connor Grotesque p. xv I'll content myself by saying the dialogue, although rarely employed today, should not be abandoned.

2008 Hermathena No. 185. 36 It is the pedagogical device of the dialogue itself that enabled Gast to write the first truly critical account of Greek history.

b. Music. A composition for two or more alternating voices.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > part-song > exchange by two or more voices

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1595 T. Morley 1st Bk. Balletts xxi. sig. D.v^v (heading) A Dialogue to 7. voices Phillis Quier.

1607 T. Ford Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (title page) Aries for 4. Voices to the Lute, Orphorion, or Basse-Viol, with a Dialogue for two Voices, and two Basse Viols in parts, tunde the Lute way.

1652 J. Wilson et al. (title) Select musical ayres and dialogues.

1659 J. Gamble in G. Grove Dict. Music (1879) I. 580 (title) Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voices.

1748 (title) Jockey and Jenny. A favourite Dialogue..sung by Mr. Lowe, and Mrs. Arne, at Vaux-Hall.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. vi. 194 Henry Lawes and others continued to affect this species of narrative melody [sc. recitative] in their dialogues and historical songs, till the Restoration.

1838 Boston Musical Gaz. 2 May 1/3 Carey and Miss Rafter sang a Dialogue by Purcell.

1890 G. P. Upton Standard Cantatas 125 The next number, a very dramatic dialogue for soprano and tenor, gives us the conversation between Arthur and Gyneth.

1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing ii. 28 Actors dressed as cocks and hens..sang a dialogue, partly Italian, partly French, with a refrain of clucking and crowing.

2007 M. Ossi in J. Whenham & R. Wistreich Cambr. Compan. Monteverdi vi. 107 The last piece..is a grand closing dialogue for seven voices.

a. A conversation carried on between two or more people; a verbal exchange, a discussion.Usually confined to a conversation between two people, probably through an association of the prefix dia- with di- (see dia- prefix¹ and di- comb. form); cf. monologue n., trialogue n., quadrilogue n.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > a, the, or this conversation

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c1450 Jack Upland's Rejoinder (Digby) 3rd Interpolation l. 1 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 172 To make with þe a dialogge j holde it bot wast.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aii A dyalogue that is to saye a comynycacyon betwyxt..Martha and our sauyour Ihesu.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 31 Feare you not my part of the dialogue .

1690 To Reverend & Merry Answerer of Vox Cleri 8 We'll have done with your Means, and imagine a short Dialogue between us concerning your End.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ii. 5 A short Dialogue..then passed between them.

1789 W. Hayley Young Widow 201 After a brief dialogue of concern and gratitude on her part, and common gallantry on mine, [etc.].

1828 J. Banim Anglo-Irish III. x. 243 During this dialogue, several of the peasants rooted holes in the damp turfen floor, filled them with potatoes and straw alternately,..and dinner was soon cooked.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ix. 84 Bella had closely attended to this short dialogue.

1922 Electric Railway Jrnl. 18 Nov. 822/2 Following Mr. Pinckney's general remarks, an animated dialogue occurred between him and Mr. Davison.

2007 A. Smith Girl meets Boy 66 This causes a shouted dialogue with him down the phone about Chantelle.

b. As a mass noun: conversation carried on between two or more people; discussion, verbal interchange. Now somewhat rare.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]

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?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bbiv By way of dialogue betwene the lady Mary, & her seruant Gyles.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 201 In Dialogue of Complement.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 133 To enter into Dispute, and Dialogue with him.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 532 So past in pleasing dialogue away The night.

1839 H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 136 The language of familiar dialogue and colloquial pleasantry..is always in a high degree idiomatic.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 188 That is the great advantage of dialogue on horseback; it can be merged any minute into a trot or a canter.

1920 J. F. Davis Chinese Label x. 117 Several times I saw him in earnest dialogue with one or the other of the youngest of these.

2006 D. Smith & K. F. Whitmore Literacy & Advocacy (2008) ii. 22 Everywhere I went in the house I heard dialogue.

c. Discussion between representatives of different countries or groups, esp. with a view to resolving conflict or solving a problem; an instance of this.

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society > society and the community > social relations > [noun]

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomatic negotiation

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1890 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 1 Apr. Mr. H. H. Champion is conducting a dialogue between representatives of different interests.

1918 tr. G. von Hertling in Washington Post 27 Feb. 1/2 It does not appear as if Runciman's suggestion has a chance of assuming tangible shape, and I must adhere to the existing methods of dialogue across the channel and ocean.

1953 Times 13 May M. Mayer went on to speak of the ‘dialogue’ which was tending to establish itself between east and west.

1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. iv. 264 We would expect a continuing dialogue between the Hebdomadal Council and the Council of the Colleges.

1989 B. H. Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia ii. 22 Gorbachev's chief foreign-policy aims are to resume dialogue with the United States, [etc.].

2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. a12 Some Turks are calling for a reappraisal of the country's policy toward Israel and urging a reopening of dialogue.

3. Conversation between two or more characters in a literary work; the words spoken by the actors in a play, film, etc. Also: the style or character of the spoken elements of a work.In this sense dialogue may either form the work as a whole (see sense 1a), or (now more usually) an element of the work, such as the words attributed to the characters of a novel or story.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors

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1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye (title page) A discourse vppon vsurye by waye of dialogue and oracians, for the better varietye, and more delite of all those, that shall reade thys treatise.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xi. 20 Others who..by maner of Dialogue, vttered the priuate and familiar talke of..shepheards, heywards and such like.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 45 The writings of Plato are by way of Dialogue.

1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 67 For the Epique way is every where interlac'd with Dialogue, or discoursive Scenes.

1779 S. Johnson Smith in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 48 The diction..is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned 98 Your book is very clever, but it wants dialogue.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. vi. 283 The plots are generally interesting; the dialogue lively.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 531/1 [In Opéra comique] the dénouement is happy, and the Dialogue spoken.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 39 65 Many have investigated the oaths used in Greek comedy, dialogue, and oratory.

1937 Life 26 July 58/1 Both Bergen and Fields write their own dialog and some of it is ad-libbed during the broadcast.

1963 Playboy Feb. 19/1 Impossibly stilted dialog beside which the pomposities of Bullwinkle's incorruptible Dudley Doright fairly crackle with wit and verisimilitude.

1982 A. Road Doctor Who: Making of TV Series 16/2 A script writer has to tell his story through dialogue.

2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. a35 Every second word of the dialogue of The Wire is an f-word.

4. Computing.

a. The exchange of data between computers on a network; an instance of this.

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1978 Computer Networks 2 314/2 In order to complete a transaction, a dialog takes place between a control process (the Controller) at a control point and a server process (the Server) at a service point.

1989 Network World 5 June 15/2 Session protocols oversee the connection or dialogue between two network devices.

2005 E. Cole et al. Network Security Bible iii. xi. 370 It [sc. the Session layer] sets up the lines of communication with other computers, manages the dialogue among computers..and manages the communication session in general.

b. Chiefly in form dialog. = dialogue box n. at Compounds 2.

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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating environment > messages requiring user response

prompt1977

dialogue1984

dialogue box1984

1984 D. Clapp Macintosh! Compl. vii. 74 Modeless dialogs are most useful in situations where you need the command box to remain in view.

1998 G. Kearsley in J. M. Carroll Minimalism beyond Nurnberg Funnel xv. 400 Features such as pull-down menus, pop-up dialogues and ‘undo’ have significantly reduced the learning time and problems associated with using computers.

2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. (In Gear section) 22 When you're finished, go to the ‘Index settings’ tab of the ‘Advanced’ dialog and click ‘Rebuild’.

Phrases

dialogue of the deaf n. [after French dialogue de sourds dialogue de sourds n.] a discussion, meeting, etc., in which neither side understands or makes allowance for the point of view of the other.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [noun] > event characterized by

dialogue de sourds1956

dialogue of the deaf1956

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > without understanding

dialogue de sourds1956

dialogue of the deaf1956

1956 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 305 167/1 Should..representatives from East and West German regimes congregate at a round table, the ensuing conference will in all probability amount to little more than a ‘dialogue of the deaf’.

1974 Times 15 Feb. 14 Better communication is no panacea for every industrial dispute... But English reserve does seem to lead, all too often, to a muted dialogue of the deaf.

1985 Financial Times 10 July 4/1 The talks were little more than a dialogue of the deaf and broke down essentially over the vexed issue of sovereignty over the islands.

2000 F. Keane Stranger's Eye 153 After the long dialogue of the deaf, the politicians were actually working with each other!

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective with agent and verbal nouns, as dialogue-author, dialogue-novel, dialogue-piece, dialogue-writer, etc.

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1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde f. 235 Two pleasaunt Bookes of Paulmestrie..the first..handled in Dialogue maner, as betweene the maister, and the scholler.

1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 165 I laugh to see this wise Dialogue maker..bring in swearing.., as though our Bishops vsed that veine, as commonly as Popish prelats.

1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 229 The Grecians to this day do still use this forme of prayer; As thou didst loose Trajan from punishment by the earnest intercession of thy servant Gregory the Dialogue-writer, [etc.].

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 317 The Form or Manner of our Dialogue-Author.

a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 68 A kind of circulating library, for the vending of dialogue novels.

1783 Hist. Miss Baltimores I. 211 I will write it dialogue fashion.

1819 Monthly Rev. Sept. 95 The dialogue-form..gives a quaintness to the work which very ill accords with modern taste.

1851 Illustr. London News 3 May 354/3 Sentiment, affection, and romance all..make a delightful dialogue-piece, in which incident is quite a secondary matter.

1909 Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 2nd Ser. 29 18 I have already mentioned the epoch-making dialogue-novel, the ancestor of all modern realistic fiction, ‘Celestina’.

1911 E. Merrill Dialogue in Eng. Lit. iv. 73 As a dialogue-writer, Dryden shares many of the good qualities and limitations of Cicero.

1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 60 Dialogue-writing, set-design and acting all become subjugated to this central purpose.

2004 P. H. Payne in Searching for Meaning Introd. 19 With Thomas Deloney..we come to a high point in Elizabethan dialogue writing.

C2.

dialogue box n. Computing a window in a graphical user interface which asks the user for input in response to some given information, such as a choice of command in answer to a question.

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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating environment > messages requiring user response

prompt1977

dialogue1984

dialogue box1984

1984 Electronics 26 Jan. 149/2 Toolkit/32 is a generic application that shares the features of Lisa's user interface, including windows, menus, scrolling, printing, dialog boxes, mouse, graphics, and cut-and-paste integration.

1992 Personal Computer World Mar. 255/2 The typestyle and point size are specified when text is typed into the text dialogue box.

2010 R. Pratap Getting Started Matlab ii. 30 On PCs: Select Save As..from the File menu. A dialog box should appear.

Derivatives

ˈdialoguewise adv. in the form of a dialogue; so as to contain dialogue; (now more usually) in respect of dialogue.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adverb]

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conversationally1803

?1555 G. Menewe Confut. Popishe & Antichristian Doctr. (title page) A confutacion of that Popishe and Antichristian doctryne..made Dialogewise betwene the Prieste and the Prentyse.

1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) sig. G3 Explained Dialogue wise, betwixt the Authour and a Military Surgeon.

1732 Criticism 5 in H. Fielding Covent-Garden Trag. A Tragedy is a Thing of five Acts, written Dialogue-wise.

1861 J. M. Neale in Lit. Churchman VII. 375/1 It is a poem written dialoguewise.

2004 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 30 May e3 It became clear to everyone that, dialoguewise, the scene would work better with just the leaf blower.

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dialoguev.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪəlɒɡ/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/,

/ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dialogue n.

Etymology: < dialogue n. Compare slightly later dialogize v., dialoguize v.

a. intransitive. To hold a dialogue or conversation, esp. with another person; to communicate by speech or writing. Also in extended use.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)]

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1595 ‘J. Dando’ & ‘H. Runt’ Maroccus Extaticus sig. B^v I am come in purpose to debate a while and dialogue with you.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 50 Var. How dost Foole? Ape. Dost Dialogue with thy shadow?

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xl. sig. G10 Where men dialogue with their noses, and their communication is smoke.

1685 Tryals H. Cornish, J. Fernley et al. 28 You must not stand to Dialogue between one another.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 45 Thus foolishly dialogu'd I with my Heart.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1882) 286 Those puppet-heroines for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism.

1859 Brit. Millennial Harbinger July 344/1 He reasoned, or dialogued with them.

1934 E. A. Baker Hist. Eng. Novel V. v. 99 Isaac Brandon..brings in stage figures called Toby, Trim, and the like, who dialogue and ejaculate in clumsy mimicry of the original worthies.

2006 S. D. Williams Moral Premise iv. 53 We dialogued by email over the following weeks.

b. transitive. To converse with, talk to. Now U.S. slang.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)]

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1681 Dialogue upon Dialogue 3 I am glad I have converted you. I never dialogued any body in my life, but I convinc'd them at last.

1699 F. Bugg Quakerism Expos'd 9 To dialogue the Bishops, and call them Monsters.

1699 F. Bugg Quakerism Expos'd 27 The Quakers dialogu'd the Bishops.

1992 D. Burke Street Talk 2 i. 2 Get with the program! Just go up and dialogue her.

2. transitive. To provide with dialogue, now esp. for a literary work, a play, film, etc. Formerly also: †to express in the form of a dialogue (obsolete). Frequently in past participle.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > write other non-story prose [verb (transitive)] > write in form of dialogue

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1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3^v And dialogu'd for him what he would say.

1781 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 358 Our conference grew very grave..I have not Time to Dialogue it.

1817 tr. in Encycl. Londinensis XV. 684/1 Fables well conceived, written with facility, dialogued with naïvete, are the first of his titles to literary glory.

1859 New Amer. Cycl. V. 130/1 The emperor Yung-ching..and his son..enlarged these commands, and Wang-yu-pi dialogued them, adding a diatribe against Buddhism.

1885 Academy 16 May 356 A tale full of human interest, brightly dialogued.

1928 L. Mitchell in J. L. Williams et al. Art of Playwriting 45 Nothing could be finer than the art with which Broadway is composed and dialogued.

1993 C. Crisp Classic French Cinema iv. 191 Prévert managed to get work adapting or dialoguing a film.

2008 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 Dec. n4 Kirby would plot and draw entire stories largely on his own initiative, which would then be dialogued by Lee.

3. intransitive. Music. Of an instrument or instrumental part: to be played so as to alternate with, echo, or contrast with another instrument or part in a manner considered analogous to spoken dialogue.

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1883 Monthly Musical Rec. Apr. 80/1 We find it [sc. the organ] dialoguing with the oboe or bassoon.

1892 Sat. Rev. 18 June 709/2 With oboe obbligato dialoguing now with sopranos, now with tenors.

1922 Musical Q. 8 575 This [organ] part..probably dialogued with the strings in much the same way as Mozart afterwards so cleverly illustrated.

2000 M. Harrison et al. Essent. Jazz Rec. II. iv. 439 Dialoguing with the guitar, Katz's cello was an especially new, disquieting romantic voice.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dialogue
释义	dialoguedialogn. Brit. /ˈdʌɪəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ Forms: Old English dialogas (plural), Middle English dialege, Middle English dialoke, Middle English dialouge, Middle English–1500s dialogge, Middle English–1500s dyalog, Middle English–1500s dyaloge, Middle English–1500s dyologe, Middle English–1600s dyalogue, Middle English–1600s (1800s– chiefly U.S.) dialog, Middle English–1700s dialoge, Middle English– dialogue, 1500s diologgis (plural), 1500s–1600s diologe, 1500s–1600s diologue, 1600s diallogue, 1600s diolog; also Scottish pre-1700 diallog, pre-1700 dialog, pre-1700 dialoge, pre-1700 dyalog. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin dialogus; French dialogue. Etymology: Originally (in Old English) < classical Latin dialogus (see below). Subsequently reinforced by or reborrowed < (i) Anglo-Norman and Old French dialoge, Anglo-Norman and Middle French dialogue, Middle French dyalogue (French dialogue ) conversation carried on between two or more people (c1200), literary work in the form of a conversation between two or more people (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin dialogus discussion, dispute, literary composition in the form of a conversation < ancient Greek διάλογος conversation, dialogue < δια- dia- prefix¹ + -λογος -logue comb. form, after διαλέγεσθαι to speak alternately, converse (see dialect n.). Compare Catalan diàleg (1507), Spanish diálogo (beginning of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diálogo (15th cent.; 14th cent. as †dialago), Italian dialogo (first half of the 14th cent.; 1306 as †dialago); also Middle Dutch dialoghe, dyaloghe (Dutch dialoog), German Dialog (second half of the 14th cent.; originally, and in early use often, with Latin inflectional endings).The Latin word (in genitive plural form) is also attested early in an English context in the title of the influential work by Gregory the Great Dialogorum libri quatuor , lit. ‘four books of dialogues’ (compare sense 1a):OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxi. 203 Swa swa gregorius se halga papa awrat on ðære bec þe is gehaten dialegorum.OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) ii. 94 (heading) Her onginneð seo æftre boc dialogorum.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) anno 482 Her se eadiga abbod Benedictus þurh wuldor þara mihta þisum middanearde scan, eal swa se eadiga Gregorius recð on Dialogorum þare boc. 1. a. A literary work in the form of a conversation between two or more persons, in which opposing or contrasting views are imputed to the participants.In early use esp. with reference to the title of Gregory's Dialogues (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > dialogue dialogueOE dialogism1822 OE List of Bks., Worcester in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 250 Ðeo englissce passionale & II englissce dialogas [i.e. two copies of Gregory's Dialogues] & Oddan boc. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 61 Þis beoð sein gregories wordes in his dialege. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1157 (MED) Danyel in his dialokez devysed sumtyme. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 283 As Seynte Gregory rehersethe in the firste booke of his dialogges. 1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) Colophon sig. Iviii/2 Here endith a..dyalogue of Diues & pauper. ?1531 in F. J. Furnivall Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1866) 35 A Dyalog betwixt the gentylman and the plowman. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 872 Will you heare the Dialogue that the two Learned men haue compiled, in prayse of the Owle and the Cuckow? 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 275 Erasmus in his Dialogues..doth Lucian it too much. 1685 N. Boteler (title) Six dialogues about sea-services. 1733 A. Pope (title) The first satire of the second book of Horace, imitated in a dialoge between Alexander Pope of Twickenham..and his learned council. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 156. ⁋7 Tragedy was a Monody..improved afterwards into a dialogue by the addition of another speaker. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 275 Plato, in one of his dialogues, introduces Anytus as vehemently offended with Socrates. 1882 Temperance Mirror Mar. 63 Uncle Job's Theory, A Dialogue [between 5 persons]. 1910 H. Walker Lit. Victorian Era iii. iii. 1028 The form which best suited Landor was the dialogue. 1962 W. V. O'Connor Grotesque p. xv I'll content myself by saying the dialogue, although rarely employed today, should not be abandoned. 2008 Hermathena No. 185. 36 It is the pedagogical device of the dialogue itself that enabled Gast to write the first truly critical account of Greek history. b. Music. A composition for two or more alternating voices. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > part-song > exchange by two or more voices dialogue1595 1595 T. Morley 1st Bk. Balletts xxi. sig. D.v^v (heading) A Dialogue to 7. voices Phillis Quier. 1607 T. Ford Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (title page) Aries for 4. Voices to the Lute, Orphorion, or Basse-Viol, with a Dialogue for two Voices, and two Basse Viols in parts, tunde the Lute way. 1652 J. Wilson et al. (title) Select musical ayres and dialogues. 1659 J. Gamble in G. Grove Dict. Music (1879) I. 580 (title) Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voices. 1748 (title) Jockey and Jenny. A favourite Dialogue..sung by Mr. Lowe, and Mrs. Arne, at Vaux-Hall. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. vi. 194 Henry Lawes and others continued to affect this species of narrative melody [sc. recitative] in their dialogues and historical songs, till the Restoration. 1838 Boston Musical Gaz. 2 May 1/3 Carey and Miss Rafter sang a Dialogue by Purcell. 1890 G. P. Upton Standard Cantatas 125 The next number, a very dramatic dialogue for soprano and tenor, gives us the conversation between Arthur and Gyneth. 1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing ii. 28 Actors dressed as cocks and hens..sang a dialogue, partly Italian, partly French, with a refrain of clucking and crowing. 2007 M. Ossi in J. Whenham & R. Wistreich Cambr. Compan. Monteverdi vi. 107 The last piece..is a grand closing dialogue for seven voices. 2. a. A conversation carried on between two or more people; a verbal exchange, a discussion.Usually confined to a conversation between two people, probably through an association of the prefix dia- with di- (see dia- prefix¹ and di- comb. form); cf. monologue n., trialogue n., quadrilogue n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > a, the, or this conversation speakc1300 dialoguec1450 speech1469 talk1548 colloquy1581 enterparlance1595 dialogism1603 colloquium1609 discourse1632 conversea1645 colloque1658 conversation1694 say1786 intercommune1820 tell1864 chin1877 conversation piece1936 rabbit1941 rabbit and pork1941 goss1983 c1450 Jack Upland's Rejoinder (Digby) 3rd Interpolation l. 1 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 172 To make with þe a dialogge j holde it bot wast. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aii A dyalogue that is to saye a comynycacyon betwyxt..Martha and our sauyour Ihesu. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 31 Feare you not my part of the dialogue . View more context for this quotation 1690 To Reverend & Merry Answerer of Vox Cleri 8 We'll have done with your Means, and imagine a short Dialogue between us concerning your End. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ii. 5 A short Dialogue..then passed between them. View more context for this quotation 1789 W. Hayley Young Widow 201 After a brief dialogue of concern and gratitude on her part, and common gallantry on mine, [etc.]. 1828 J. Banim Anglo-Irish III. x. 243 During this dialogue, several of the peasants rooted holes in the damp turfen floor, filled them with potatoes and straw alternately,..and dinner was soon cooked. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ix. 84 Bella had closely attended to this short dialogue. 1922 Electric Railway Jrnl. 18 Nov. 822/2 Following Mr. Pinckney's general remarks, an animated dialogue occurred between him and Mr. Davison. 2007 A. Smith Girl meets Boy 66 This causes a shouted dialogue with him down the phone about Chantelle. b. As a mass noun: conversation carried on between two or more people; discussion, verbal interchange. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] speechc900 talec1000 speaka1300 reasonc1300 speakinga1325 counsela1350 intercommuningc1374 dalliancec1400 communication1419 communancec1449 collocutiona1464 parlour?c1475 sermocination1514 commona1529 dialogue?1533 interlocutiona1534 discourse1545 discoursing1550 conference1565 purposea1572 talk1572 interspeech1579 conversationa1586 devising1586 intercourse1596 intercommunication1603 eclogue1604 commercing1610 communion1614 negocea1617 alloquy1623 confariation1652 gob1681 gab1761 commune1814 colloquy1817 conversing1884 cross-talk1887 bull session1920 rap1957 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bbiv By way of dialogue betwene the lady Mary, & her seruant Gyles. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 201 In Dialogue of Complement. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 133 To enter into Dispute, and Dialogue with him. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 532 So past in pleasing dialogue away The night. 1839 H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 136 The language of familiar dialogue and colloquial pleasantry..is always in a high degree idiomatic. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 188 That is the great advantage of dialogue on horseback; it can be merged any minute into a trot or a canter. 1920 J. F. Davis Chinese Label x. 117 Several times I saw him in earnest dialogue with one or the other of the youngest of these. 2006 D. Smith & K. F. Whitmore Literacy & Advocacy (2008) ii. 22 Everywhere I went in the house I heard dialogue. c. Discussion between representatives of different countries or groups, esp. with a view to resolving conflict or solving a problem; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] conversationc1340 dolea1400 repairc1425 fellowshipc1450 frequentation?1520 communion1529 society1531 commerce1537 commercement1537 society1538 trade1555 intercourse1557 company1576 intercommunication1586 interdeal1591 entertain1602 consort1607 entregent1607 quarter1608 commercing1610 converse1610 trucka1625 congress1628 socialty1638 frequency1642 socialitya1649 socialness1727 intercommuniona1761 social life1812 dialogue1890 discourse1963 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomatic negotiation embassadryc1425 ambassadry?a1439 entreating?a1439 entreaty1447 tract1501 entreatisea1513 entreatment?1520 embassy1549 ambassadya1597 ambassy1625 negotiation1702 dialogue1890 1890 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 1 Apr. Mr. H. H. Champion is conducting a dialogue between representatives of different interests. 1918 tr. G. von Hertling in Washington Post 27 Feb. 1/2 It does not appear as if Runciman's suggestion has a chance of assuming tangible shape, and I must adhere to the existing methods of dialogue across the channel and ocean. 1953 Times 13 May M. Mayer went on to speak of the ‘dialogue’ which was tending to establish itself between east and west. 1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. iv. 264 We would expect a continuing dialogue between the Hebdomadal Council and the Council of the Colleges. 1989 B. H. Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia ii. 22 Gorbachev's chief foreign-policy aims are to resume dialogue with the United States, [etc.]. 2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. a12 Some Turks are calling for a reappraisal of the country's policy toward Israel and urging a reopening of dialogue. 3. Conversation between two or more characters in a literary work; the words spoken by the actors in a play, film, etc. Also: the style or character of the spoken elements of a work.In this sense dialogue may either form the work as a whole (see sense 1a), or (now more usually) an element of the work, such as the words attributed to the characters of a novel or story. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors dialogue1572 side speech1728 words1761 line1882 1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye (title page) A discourse vppon vsurye by waye of dialogue and oracians, for the better varietye, and more delite of all those, that shall reade thys treatise. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xi. 20 Others who..by maner of Dialogue, vttered the priuate and familiar talke of..shepheards, heywards and such like. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 45 The writings of Plato are by way of Dialogue. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 67 For the Epique way is every where interlac'd with Dialogue, or discoursive Scenes. 1779 S. Johnson Smith in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 48 The diction..is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned 98 Your book is very clever, but it wants dialogue. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. vi. 283 The plots are generally interesting; the dialogue lively. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 531/1 [In Opéra comique] the dénouement is happy, and the Dialogue spoken. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 39 65 Many have investigated the oaths used in Greek comedy, dialogue, and oratory. 1937 Life 26 July 58/1 Both Bergen and Fields write their own dialog and some of it is ad-libbed during the broadcast. 1963 Playboy Feb. 19/1 Impossibly stilted dialog beside which the pomposities of Bullwinkle's incorruptible Dudley Doright fairly crackle with wit and verisimilitude. 1982 A. Road Doctor Who: Making of TV Series 16/2 A script writer has to tell his story through dialogue. 2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 20 Sept. a35 Every second word of the dialogue of The Wire is an f-word. 4. Computing. a. The exchange of data between computers on a network; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1978 Computer Networks 2 314/2 In order to complete a transaction, a dialog takes place between a control process (the Controller) at a control point and a server process (the Server) at a service point. 1989 Network World 5 June 15/2 Session protocols oversee the connection or dialogue between two network devices. 2005 E. Cole et al. Network Security Bible iii. xi. 370 It [sc. the Session layer] sets up the lines of communication with other computers, manages the dialogue among computers..and manages the communication session in general. b. Chiefly in form dialog. = dialogue box n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating environment > messages requiring user response prompt1977 dialogue1984 dialogue box1984 1984 D. Clapp Macintosh! Compl. vii. 74 Modeless dialogs are most useful in situations where you need the command box to remain in view. 1998 G. Kearsley in J. M. Carroll Minimalism beyond Nurnberg Funnel xv. 400 Features such as pull-down menus, pop-up dialogues and ‘undo’ have significantly reduced the learning time and problems associated with using computers. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. (In Gear section) 22 When you're finished, go to the ‘Index settings’ tab of the ‘Advanced’ dialog and click ‘Rebuild’. Phrases dialogue of the deaf n. [after French dialogue de sourds dialogue de sourds n.] a discussion, meeting, etc., in which neither side understands or makes allowance for the point of view of the other. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [noun] > event characterized by dialogue de sourds1956 dialogue of the deaf1956 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > without understanding dialogue de sourds1956 dialogue of the deaf1956 1956 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 305 167/1 Should..representatives from East and West German regimes congregate at a round table, the ensuing conference will in all probability amount to little more than a ‘dialogue of the deaf’. 1974 Times 15 Feb. 14 Better communication is no panacea for every industrial dispute... But English reserve does seem to lead, all too often, to a muted dialogue of the deaf. 1985 Financial Times 10 July 4/1 The talks were little more than a dialogue of the deaf and broke down essentially over the vexed issue of sovereignty over the islands. 2000 F. Keane Stranger's Eye 153 After the long dialogue of the deaf, the politicians were actually working with each other! Compounds C1. General attributive and objective with agent and verbal nouns, as dialogue-author, dialogue-novel, dialogue-piece, dialogue-writer, etc. ΚΠ 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde f. 235 Two pleasaunt Bookes of Paulmestrie..the first..handled in Dialogue maner, as betweene the maister, and the scholler. 1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 165 I laugh to see this wise Dialogue maker..bring in swearing.., as though our Bishops vsed that veine, as commonly as Popish prelats. 1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 229 The Grecians to this day do still use this forme of prayer; As thou didst loose Trajan from punishment by the earnest intercession of thy servant Gregory the Dialogue-writer, [etc.]. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 317 The Form or Manner of our Dialogue-Author. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 68 A kind of circulating library, for the vending of dialogue novels. 1783 Hist. Miss Baltimores I. 211 I will write it dialogue fashion. 1819 Monthly Rev. Sept. 95 The dialogue-form..gives a quaintness to the work which very ill accords with modern taste. 1851 Illustr. London News 3 May 354/3 Sentiment, affection, and romance all..make a delightful dialogue-piece, in which incident is quite a secondary matter. 1909 Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 2nd Ser. 29 18 I have already mentioned the epoch-making dialogue-novel, the ancestor of all modern realistic fiction, ‘Celestina’. 1911 E. Merrill Dialogue in Eng. Lit. iv. 73 As a dialogue-writer, Dryden shares many of the good qualities and limitations of Cicero. 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 60 Dialogue-writing, set-design and acting all become subjugated to this central purpose. 2004 P. H. Payne in Searching for Meaning Introd. 19 With Thomas Deloney..we come to a high point in Elizabethan dialogue writing. C2. dialogue box n. Computing a window in a graphical user interface which asks the user for input in response to some given information, such as a choice of command in answer to a question. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating environment > messages requiring user response prompt1977 dialogue1984 dialogue box1984 1984 Electronics 26 Jan. 149/2 Toolkit/32 is a generic application that shares the features of Lisa's user interface, including windows, menus, scrolling, printing, dialog boxes, mouse, graphics, and cut-and-paste integration. 1992 Personal Computer World Mar. 255/2 The typestyle and point size are specified when text is typed into the text dialogue box. 2010 R. Pratap Getting Started Matlab ii. 30 On PCs: Select Save As..from the File menu. A dialog box should appear. Derivatives ˈdialoguewise adv. in the form of a dialogue; so as to contain dialogue; (now more usually) in respect of dialogue. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adverb] dialoguewise?1555 discussively1613 discoursively1642 conversably1645 dialogisticallya1654 dialogically1766 conversationally1803 ?1555 G. Menewe Confut. Popishe & Antichristian Doctr. (title page) A confutacion of that Popishe and Antichristian doctryne..made Dialogewise betwene the Prieste and the Prentyse. 1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) sig. G3 Explained Dialogue wise, betwixt the Authour and a Military Surgeon. 1732 Criticism 5 in H. Fielding Covent-Garden Trag. A Tragedy is a Thing of five Acts, written Dialogue-wise. 1861 J. M. Neale in Lit. Churchman VII. 375/1 It is a poem written dialoguewise. 2004 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 30 May e3 It became clear to everyone that, dialoguewise, the scene would work better with just the leaf blower. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dialoguev. Brit. /ˈdʌɪəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dialogue n. Etymology: < dialogue n. Compare slightly later dialogize v., dialoguize v. 1. a. intransitive. To hold a dialogue or conversation, esp. with another person; to communicate by speech or writing. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] yedc888 speak971 rounda1200 talka1225 tevela1225 intercommunec1374 fable1382 parlec1400 reason?c1425 communique?1473 devise1477 cutc1525 wade1527 enterparle1536 discourse1550 to hold one chat, with chat, in chat1573 parley1576 purpose1590 dialogue1595 commerce1596 dialoguize1596 communicate1598 propose1600 dialogize1601 converse1615 tella1616 interlocute1621 interparle1791 conversate1811 colloquize1823 conversationize1826 colloque1850 visit1862 colloquy1868 to make conversation1921 1595 ‘J. Dando’ & ‘H. Runt’ Maroccus Extaticus sig. B^v I am come in purpose to debate a while and dialogue with you. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 50 Var. How dost Foole? Ape. Dost Dialogue with thy shadow? View more context for this quotation 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xl. sig. G10 Where men dialogue with their noses, and their communication is smoke. 1685 Tryals H. Cornish, J. Fernley et al. 28 You must not stand to Dialogue between one another. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 45 Thus foolishly dialogu'd I with my Heart. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1882) 286 Those puppet-heroines for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism. 1859 Brit. Millennial Harbinger July 344/1 He reasoned, or dialogued with them. 1934 E. A. Baker Hist. Eng. Novel V. v. 99 Isaac Brandon..brings in stage figures called Toby, Trim, and the like, who dialogue and ejaculate in clumsy mimicry of the original worthies. 2006 S. D. Williams Moral Premise iv. 53 We dialogued by email over the following weeks. b. transitive. To converse with, talk to. Now U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)] to speak to ——c825 speakc950 to speak with ——971 to speak unto ——c1386 entertain1553 to stand with ——1564 wissel1571 discourse1677 dialogue1681 converse1718 1681 Dialogue upon Dialogue 3 I am glad I have converted you. I never dialogued any body in my life, but I convinc'd them at last. 1699 F. Bugg Quakerism Expos'd 9 To dialogue the Bishops, and call them Monsters. 1699 F. Bugg Quakerism Expos'd 27 The Quakers dialogu'd the Bishops. 1992 D. Burke Street Talk 2 i. 2 Get with the program! Just go up and dialogue her. 2. transitive. To provide with dialogue, now esp. for a literary work, a play, film, etc. Formerly also: †to express in the form of a dialogue (obsolete). Frequently in past participle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > write other non-story prose [verb (transitive)] > write in form of dialogue dialogue1609 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3^v And dialogu'd for him what he would say. 1781 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 358 Our conference grew very grave..I have not Time to Dialogue it. 1817 tr. in Encycl. Londinensis XV. 684/1 Fables well conceived, written with facility, dialogued with naïvete, are the first of his titles to literary glory. 1859 New Amer. Cycl. V. 130/1 The emperor Yung-ching..and his son..enlarged these commands, and Wang-yu-pi dialogued them, adding a diatribe against Buddhism. 1885 Academy 16 May 356 A tale full of human interest, brightly dialogued. 1928 L. Mitchell in J. L. Williams et al. Art of Playwriting 45 Nothing could be finer than the art with which Broadway is composed and dialogued. 1993 C. Crisp Classic French Cinema iv. 191 Prévert managed to get work adapting or dialoguing a film. 2008 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 Dec. n4 Kirby would plot and draw entire stories largely on his own initiative, which would then be dialogued by Lee. 3. intransitive. Music. Of an instrument or instrumental part: to be played so as to alternate with, echo, or contrast with another instrument or part in a manner considered analogous to spoken dialogue. ΚΠ 1883 Monthly Musical Rec. Apr. 80/1 We find it [sc. the organ] dialoguing with the oboe or bassoon. 1892 Sat. Rev. 18 June 709/2 With oboe obbligato dialoguing now with sopranos, now with tenors. 1922 Musical Q. 8 575 This [organ] part..probably dialogued with the strings in much the same way as Mozart afterwards so cleverly illustrated. 2000 M. Harrison et al. Essent. Jazz Rec. II. iv. 439 Dialoguing with the guitar, Katz's cello was an especially new, disquieting romantic voice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OEv.1595
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