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for parlance
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Parlance \Par"lance\ (p[aum]r"lans), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to
speak. See Parley.]
Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
parlance; in common parlance.
[1913 Webster]
A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster] Parlando
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
parlance
n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of
a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "parlance":
choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression,
formulation, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, langue, lingo,
lingua, locution, parole, personal usage, phrase, phraseology,
phrasing, rhetoric, speech, talk, tongue, usage, use of words,
usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
Parlance
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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