单词 | dialogue |
释义 | dialogue (once / 448 pages) n If you land a role in a local play, you will probably have to memorize several lines of dialogue. If you disagree with how that play is being produced, you may want to open up a dialogue with the director. Dialogue can refer to spoken lines in a dramatic performance such as a play, a film, or a television show. It is also any conversation between two or more people. On the written page, dialogue between characters is usually enclosed by quotation marks. When persons representing different political parties or different nations are said to engage in a dialogue, it means they are probably negotiating something of importance. WORD FAMILYdialogue: dialogues USAGE EXAMPLESBeing prompted to enter into an inner dialogue in an fMRI machine is not the same as spontaneously debating with oneself at the kitchen table. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) At the time he was unpopular, criticised for too much compromise and too much dialogue. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) “The music would add something — add some dialogue, add a level of understanding or suggestion or provocativeness — rather than amplify what was already there.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a conversation between two persons Syn|Hyper dialog, duologue talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation 2n a discussion intended to produce an agreement they disagreed but kept an open dialogue Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper negotiation, talks Strategic Arms Limitation Talks negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons parley a negotiation between enemies diplomacy, diplomatic negotiationsnegotiation between nations bargainingthe negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement collective bargainingnegotiation between an employer and trade union horse tradingnegotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining mediationa negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party plea bargain, plea bargaining(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge dollar diplomacydiplomacy influenced by economic considerations gunboat diplomacy, power politicsdiplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives recognitionthe explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country shuttle diplomacyinternational negotiations conducted by a mediator who frequently flies back and forth between the negotiating parties haggle, haggling, wrangle, wranglingan instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) holdouta refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal arbitration(law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management) conciliationany of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration umpiragemediation by an umpire discussion, give-and-take, word an exchange of views on some topic 3n the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction Syn|Hypo|Hyper dialog duologue a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors book, playscript, script a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance 4n a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek Syn|Hyper dialog literary composition, literary work imaginative or creative writing |
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