conversation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people

   Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.

   • I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
   • You need to improve conversation in foreign languages.
   • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
2. 2

   The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

3. 3

   The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.

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   1. 4

      Interaction

      Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.

      • Yt chaunſed thatt a whole yere they had their converſacion with the congregacion there / and taught moche people in ſomoche thatt the diſciples off Antioche wer the fyrſt that wer called Chriſten.
   2. 5

      Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself

      Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.

      • Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
      • There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation, and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
      • I have desired him to inquire after Lovelace's life and conversation in town.
   3. 6

      Sexual intercourse.

      • criminal conversation
      • Ariadne[…]quitted her Lover Theseus, for the tumultuous Conversation of Bacchus.
   4. 7

      Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.

      • So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.
   5. 8

      To engage in conversation (with).

      • Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
      • ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
      • After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.

The neighborhood

• neighborconverse
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