different between dialogue vs dialoguist

English

Alternative forms

• (US): dialog

Etymology

From Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (US)

Noun

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

1. A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
   • 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[1]

     The hours of dialogue with Winfrey, which culminated in a choked-up moment on Friday night as he discussed the impact of his cheating on his family, appear to have failed to give Armstrong the redemption that he craves.

2. (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
3. (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

4. (computing) A dialogue box.

See also

• introspection
• monologue
• trialogue
• quadralogue
• multilogue

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• dialect
• dialectic

Translations

References

• Dialogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dialogue (third-person singular simple present dialogues, present participle dialoguing, simple past and past participle dialogued)

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

2. (transitive) To put into dialogue form.
3. (obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late 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

• IPA^(key): /dja.l??/

Noun

dialogue m (plural dialogues)

1. dialogue

Derived terms

• dialogue de sourds

Verb

dialogue

1. inflection of dialoguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Descendants

• ? Turkish: diyalog

Further reading

• “dialogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

dialogue

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dialogar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dialogar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dialogar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dialogar.

English

Etymology

dialogue +? -ist

Noun

dialoguist (plural dialoguists)

1. A person who writes dialogue.
2. A scriptwriter skilled at writing dialogue.

Translations