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di·a·log

(dī′ə-lôg′, -lŏg′)

n. & v.

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dialog

Past participle: dialogged
Gerund: dialogging

Imperative
dialog
dialog

Present
I dialog
you dialog
he/she/it dialogs
we dialog
you dialog
they dialog

Preterite
I dialogged
you dialogged
he/she/it dialogged
we dialogged
you dialogged
they dialogged

Present Continuous
I am dialogging
you are dialogging
he/she/it is dialogging
we are dialogging
you are dialogging
they are dialogging

Present Perfect
I have dialogged
you have dialogged
he/she/it has dialogged
we have dialogged
you have dialogged
they have dialogged

Past Continuous
I was dialogging
you were dialogging
he/she/it was dialogging
we were dialogging
you were dialogging
they were dialogging

Past Perfect
I had dialogged
you had dialogged
he/she/it had dialogged
we had dialogged
you had dialogged
they had dialogged

Future
I will dialog
you will dialog
he/she/it will dialog
we will dialog
you will dialog
they will dialog

Future Perfect
I will have dialogged
you will have dialogged
he/she/it will have dialogged
we will have dialogged
you will have dialogged
they will have dialogged

Future Continuous
I will be dialogging
you will be dialogging
he/she/it will be dialogging
we will be dialogging
you will be dialogging
they will be dialogging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been dialogging
you have been dialogging
he/she/it has been dialogging
we have been dialogging
you have been dialogging
they have been dialogging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been dialogging
you will have been dialogging
he/she/it will have been dialogging
we will have been dialogging
you will have been dialogging
they will have been dialogging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been dialogging
you had been dialogging
he/she/it had been dialogging
we had been dialogging
you had been dialogging
they had been dialogging

Conditional
I would dialog
you would dialog
he/she/it would dialog
we would dialog
you would dialog
they would dialog

Past Conditional
I would have dialogged
you would have dialogged
he/she/it would have dialogged
we would have dialogged
you would have dialogged
they would have dialogged

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Noun	1.	dialog - a conversation between two persons dialogue, duologue talk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"
	2.	dialog - the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction dialogue playscript, script, book - a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance duologue - a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors actor's line, words, speech - words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"
	3.	dialog - a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek" dialogue literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing

dialogue

or dialog
noun

Spoken exchange:

chat, colloquy, confabulation, conversation, converse, discourse, speech, talk.

Informal: confab.

Slang: jaw.

Translations

diálogo

dialogo

dvogovor

dialogue

(ˈdaiəlog) (American) dialog(ue) noun

(a) talk between two or more people, especially in a play or novel.

References in classic literature ?

They consisted of an elaborate scenic background set up near the city gate or on the street, with figures from allegorical or traditional history who engaged in some pantomime or declamation, but with very little dramatic dialog, or none.

Next, and before the Norman Conquest, the Gospel dialog between the angel and the three Marys at the tomb of Christ came sometimes to be chanted by the choir in those responses which are called 'tropes':

One priest dressed in white robes sat, to represent the angel, by one of the square-built tombs near the junction of nave and transept, and three others, personating the Marys, advanced slowly toward him while they chanted their portion of the same dialog. As the last momentous words of the angel died away a jubilant 'Te Deum' burst from, organ and choir, and every member of the congregation exulted, often with sobs, in the great triumph which brought salvation to every Christian soul.

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Elliott, which owns 2.9% of the voting rights for Dialog, wrote to Dialog shareholders on Monday, claiming that the deal would destroy Dialog's value.

Dialog Semiconductor Raffirms Commitment to Merger Following Elliott Management Objection

In the core of a conversation system is a key component called a dialog state tracker, which estimates the user's goal given all of the dialog history so far.

The dialog state tracking challenge series

The main objective of the social dialog is to favor the democratic participation and the consensus.

The influence of social dialogue on the organization's performance

If your database product doesn't appear, click on Browse to locate it on your computer and then click on OK, engaging the Select Database dialog box (exhibit 3, page 54).

Click ... and the database loads into Excel: an easy way to import data into a spreadsheet

Dialog exists when all communicative participants are allowed to, are encouraged to, and actually actively participate -- by speaking and listening to others -- in sharing ideas with each other.

The Ethics of Student Classroom Silence

The service is now operated by Dialog's eCommerce division which, in addition to re-engineering the branding and layout of the site, has applied its proprietary technologies and services to provide eCommerce functionality on EZ for the first time.