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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
parlance
n : a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a
language [syn: idiom]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Parlance
A concurrent language.
["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and
Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin
1979].
(1994-12-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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