parlance
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ləns noun
1.
a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
2.
speech, especially a formal discussion or debate.
3.
talk; parley.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a particular manner of speaking, esp when specialized; idiom: political parlance |
| 2. | archaic any discussion, such as a debate |
| [C16: from Old French, from parler to talk, via Medieval Latin from Late Latin parabola speech, | |
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Parlance
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
parlance
1579, way of speaking, from Anglo-Fr. (c.1300) and O.Fr. parlance, from O.Fr. parlaunce, from parler "to speak" (see parley).
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Parlance definition
A concurrent language.
["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979].
(1994-12-12)
Example sentences
Other faculty members have suffered what, in modern parlance, is called an epic fail during their evaluation.
Then she went multi-platform, in the parlance of media managers, of which she is one.
Managing it will require mitigating whatever harms it causes: adaptation, in the standard parlance.
Each professional specialty has its own unique parlance and nomenclature.
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