dialogue

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The New York Times reported Saturday, citing unnamed officials and diplomats, that among other measures being weighed by the US administration to entice Iran for a dialogue are a direct communication from Obama to Khamenei, and an end to a prohibition on direct contacts between junior US diplomats and their Iranian counterparts around the world.

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  1. noun A conversation between two or more people.
  2. noun Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
  3. noun The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken.
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  • Iphigénie would seem an unusual opera for an Italian audience - the dialogue is accompanied declamation, barely set off from the arias, and there were no full stops after fiery vocal display (there is little fiery vocal display in Gluck's "reform" operas) to inspire audience demonstration. —  Opera Today
  • The New York Times reported Saturday, citing unnamed officials and diplomats, that among other measures being weighed by the US administration to entice Iran for a dialogue are a direct communication from Obama to Khamenei, and an end to a prohibition on direct contacts between junior US diplomats and their Iranian counterparts around the world. —  Raw Story
  • Some of the dialogue was a little clunky, but if you watch other shows from the 60s, "Star Trek" was miles ahead of most of it. —  Pajiba
  • My own contribution to this dialogue was the view that Bernie might well be sent to one of those nicely furnished white collar criminal farms. —  The Moderate Voice
  • If the dialogue were anything but clunky, "Last House" would have something to recommend. —  Arizona Reporter Newswire
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narrative ·  conversation ·  discourse ·  drama ·  poem ·  correspondence ·  commentary ·  debate ·  essay ·  criticism ·  speech ·  write

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dialogue:   dialogues
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English dialog, from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Greek dialogos, conversation, from dialegesthai, to discuss; see dialect.

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  1. from Middle English *dialoge, miswritten dialoke, = Dutch dialoog = G. Danish Swedish dialog, from French dialogue = Spanish diálogo = Portuguese Italian dialogo, from Latin dialogus, from Greek διάλογος, also διαλογή, a conversation, dialogue, from διαλέγεσθαι, converse: see dialect.
  2. from dialogue, n.
 

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