different between dialog vs acting

English

Alternative forms

• dialogue

Etymology

From Middle English dialog (“A literary discussion or a work written as one”), from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from ??? (diá, “through, inter”) + ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “to converse”), from ??? (diá) + ?????? (légein, “to speak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/

Noun

dialog (countable and uncountable, plural dialogs) (American spelling)

1. A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
2. In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
3. A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
   • 1475, Higden's Polychronicon:

     Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle.

4. (computing) A dialog box.
   • 2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications

     You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose […]

Antonyms

• introspection
• monolog
• multilog

Derived terms

Related terms

• dialect
• dialectic

Translations

Verb

dialog (third-person singular simple present dialogs, present participle dialoging, simple past and past participle dialoged)

1. (American spelling, informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.

Translations

Anagrams

• Goliad, algoid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?jalok]
• Hyphenation: dia?log

Noun

dialog m inan

1. dialog

Declension

Related terms

• See logos

Further reading

• dialog in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dialog in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

Noun

dialog (first-person possessive dialogku, second-person possessive dialogmu, third-person possessive dialognya)

1. dialog

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dyaloge, dialoge, diolag, dialok, dialogge

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di?al??(?)/, /?di?al???(?)/

Noun

dialog (plural dialogges)

1. A literary discussion or a work written as one.
2. (rare) An organised talk between two people.

Descendants

• English: dialog, dialogue

References

• “d?al??g, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-20.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

dia- +? -log; from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from ??? (diá, “through, inter”) + ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from ?????????? (dialég?mai, “to converse”), from ??? (diá) + ?????? (légein, “to speak”).

Noun

dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialoger, definite plural dialogene)

1. dialog (US) or dialogue

Synonyms

• samtale

Derived terms

• dialogsamtale

Related terms

• monolog

References

• “dialog” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

dia- +? -log; from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from ??? (diá, “through, inter”) + ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from ?????????? (dialég?mai, “to converse”), from ??? (diá) + ?????? (légein, “to speak”).

Noun

dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialogar, definite plural dialogane)

1. dialog (US) or dialogue

Synonyms

• samtale

Derived terms

• dialogsamtale

Related terms

• monolog

References

• “dialog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dja.l?k/

Noun

dialog m inan

1. dialog (conversation or other discourse between individuals)

Declension

Synonyms

• rozmowa

Romanian

Etymology

From French dialogue

Noun

dialog n (plural dialoguri)

1. dialogue

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

dia- +? -log

Noun

dialog c

1. dialog

Declension

English

Etymology

From the verb act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.t??/

Adjective

acting (not comparable)

1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

   The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

   Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.

Translations

See also

• pro tem

Verb

acting

1. present participle of act

Noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

1. (countable, obsolete) An action or deed.
   • 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,^[1]

     […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 10,^[2]

     […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings,

2. (law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
3. Pretending.
4. (drama) The occupation of an actor.

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