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parlance


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Parlance  \Par"lance\,  n.  [OF.,  fr  F.  parler  to  speak.  See 
  {Parley}.] 
  Conversation;  discourse;  talk;  diction;  phrase;  as  in  legal 
  parlance;  in  common  parlance. 
 
  A  hate  of  gossip  parlance  and  of  sway.  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  parlance 
  n  :  a  manner  of  speaking  that  is  natural  to  native  speakers  of  a 
  language  [syn:  {idiom}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Parlance 
 
  A  {concurrent}  language. 
 
  ["Parallel  Processing  Structures:  Languages,  Schedules,  and 
  Performance  Results",  P.F.  Reynolds,  PhD  Thesis,  UT  Austin 
  1979]. 
 
  (1994-12-12) 
 
 




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