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Dialect vs. Dialog

Dialect and Dialog Definitions

Dialect

A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists
Cockney is a dialect of English.

Dialog

Variant of dialogue.

Dialect

A variety of language that with other varieties constitutes a single language of which no single variety is standard
The dialects of Ancient Greek.

Dialog

A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.

Dialect

The language peculiar to the members of a group, especially in an occupation; jargon
The dialect of science.

Dialog

In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
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Dialect

The manner or style of expressing oneself in language or the arts.

Dialog

A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

Dialect

A language considered as part of a larger family of languages or a linguistic branch. Not in scientific use
Spanish and French are Romance dialects.

Dialog

(computing) A dialog box.

Dialect

A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

Dialog

To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
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Dialect

A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.

Dialog

A conversation between two persons

Dialect

(pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.

Dialog

The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

Dialect

A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.

Dialog

A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people;
He has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek
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Dialect

A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.

Dialect

(ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Dialect

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
This book is writ in such a dialectAs may the minds of listless men affect.Bunyan.The universal dialect of the world.

Dialect

The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.
[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.

Dialect

The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
He has a strong German accent

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