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Parlance
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- In military parlance it is known as friendly fire, but there is nothing friendly about it.
- In the parlance of chemists, metallic lead is electropositive.
- Areas outside of these zones are known in nautical parlance as the high seas.
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parlance
1579, way of speaking, from Anglo-Fr. (c.1300) and O.Fr. parlance, from O.Fr. parlaunce, from parler "to speak" (see parley).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary
Parlance definition
A concurrent language.
["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979].
(1994-12-12)
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