conversation
IPA: kɑnvɝsˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
- (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
- (computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
- (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
- (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
- (obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
verb
- (nonstandard, transitive, intransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
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Examples of "conversation" in Sentences
- The conversation drifts.
- He overhears the conversation.
- He meddled in the conversation.
- They interweave the conversations.
- The conversation was fairly jolly.
- Much of their conversation is inaudible.
- That was the sum total of the conversation.
- Just remember, "conversation" comes from the Latin word for
- Anyone not engaged in conversation is hunched over a BlackBerry.
- They also may later disrupt conversations of pertinence on the talk page.
- The reason I think it does not come up in conversation is because most people do not get how important it is.
- Religious and philosophic conversation were ever-present in my home life, and the conversation was *always* that—a *conversation*.
- One of my favorite responses when anything about conscious parenting, positive discipline, Non-Violent parenting etc. comes up in conversation is the “I turned out all right” statement.
- The standout scene and most likely the one that will be brought up most in conversation is involving a mad chase scene with the killer and a very naked Irene (played with game enthusiasm by Rue).
- Read also the following certificate of these men, which they gave to the public last spring; in which they admit some other conversation which they call _a free and unreserved conversation_, and protest against the
- I had that conversation only after just having a phone conversation with Shari — regarding the same nonsense.) (Oh and as a second aside: Shari is a secret-covert-spy on diaryland whom is a bit chicken and signs up as a guest (refusing to set up her own tag name) to read muah and others - as listed above oh my bubbles: in my proper PBS - drug-free - commercial tone
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