different between confab vs conference

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nfæb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæb/, /k?n-/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k?n?fæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: con?fab

Etymology 1

Clipping of confabulation, from Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin conf?bul?ti?nem, from c?nf?bul?r? + -ti?nem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); see further at etymology 2.

Noun

confab (countable and uncountable, plural confabs)

1. (informal) Clipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).

   Synonym: conflab

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Etymology 2

Clipping of confabulate, from Latin c?nf?bul?r? + English -ate (suffix forming verbs with the sense of acting in the specified manner). C?nf?bul?r? is the present active infinitive of c?nf?bulor (“to converse; to discuss”), from con- (prefix indicating a bringing together) + f?bulor (“to chat, converse, talk; to make up a story”) (from f?bula (“discourse, narrative; fable, story”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to say, speak”)) + for (“to say, speak, talk”)).

Verb

confab (third-person singular simple present confabs, present participle confabbing, simple past and past participle confabbed)

1. (intransitive, informal) Clipping of confabulate (“to speak casually with somebody; to chat”).

   Synonym: (obsolete, rare) confable

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References

English

Etymology

From Middle French conférence, from Medieval Latin conferentia, from Latin conferens.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f??ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f?.??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f?.??ns/, [?k???.f??ns], [?k???.f?n?s]

Noun

conference (plural conferences)

1. The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
2. (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
3. (sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
4. (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
5. (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
6. (Philippines, sports) A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
7. (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     helps and furtherances which […] the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford

8. (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
9. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

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See also

• discussant, lecturer, parleyer, prelector, speaker.

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Verb

conference (third-person singular simple present conferences, present participle conferencing, simple past and past participle conferenced)

1. (transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
   • 2009, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom

     The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.