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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of dialogue.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A simplified spelling of dialogue.

Wiktionary

  1. n. informal spelling of dialogue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
  2. n. a conversation between two persons
  3. n. the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

Examples

  • “This happens for me most often with the label dialog but it's basically erasing with select similar would be one or two more input actions.”

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  • “But what surprised me was how snappy the dialog is and how the film hangs together well because of it.”

    MOVIEW REVIEW: Iron Man

  • “Keep it up, it’s what we call dialog…it’s a good thing.”

    Karas: The Prophecy | The Anime Blog

  • “(BTW - this kind of dialog is exactly what I like about Publicola.)”

    McGinn Staff Received Salary Increases While Mayor Froze Salaries in Other Departments « PubliCola

  • “Their dialog is hilarious, and dead-on for two guys who have known each other forever, long enough to give each other a line of bull about each and every subject.”

    Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » July

  • “Anyway, the dialog is more comfortable on the SCA/Valkyrie end of the story than on the modern end (contractions: they are our friends), but the forging and the fighting balance that out for sure.”

    mrissa: Black Blade Blues, by J. A. Pitts

  • “The writers of this show understand that dialog is characterization (among other things), and so when you have a character like Omar who doesn't say a word that would turn a hair on my grandmother's head, you know something about Omar other than that the network wouldn't let him talk differently, because it's HBO, so of course the network would.”

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

  • “There are actual plots, the dialog is meant to reveal character and move the story along, and there are characters to play.”

    Lance Mannion:

  • “The dialog is poorly written as far as the predictability and the somewhat artificial flow.”

    BUMMER • by John Brooke

  • “The dialog is razor sharp between them as they get to know each other and gradually fall for each other in a way neither expected or initially wanted, yet nothing in the book feels contrived or tacked on.”

    Archive 2009-12-01

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