dialog

Variant of dialogue.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəlɑɡ/

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dialog (countable and uncountable, plural dialogs)

1. (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of dialogue.
   • 2008, Peter Kreeft, Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death‎^[4], InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     The purpose of the dialog is not historical accuracy; the argument is all, as it is with Plato's Socrates.

   • 2008, Jay Rose, chapter 8, in Audio Postproduction for Film and Video‎^[5] (Motion Pictures), Focal Press, →ISBN, page 18-:

     Besides, a video post room's console is smaller than those used for film, and you couldn't squander a dozen or more channels on dialog.

   • 2014, Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, “Explaining Extreme Events”, in American Meteorological Society‎^[6], archived from the original on 17 April 2015:

     As we conclude our third annual report on explaining extreme events, the dialog around the value of attribution science is intensifying (Kerr 2013).

2. (computing) A dialog box.

   Alternative form: dialogue (nonstandard)

   • 2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications:

     You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose […]

Some style guides suggest limiting dialog to computing contexts, leaving dialogue for literary contexts.^[1][2][3]

• introspection
• monolog
• multilog

dialog (third-person singular simple present dialogs, present participle dialoging, simple past and past participle dialoged)

1. (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of dialogue.

• Goliad, algoid

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪjalok]

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• Hyphenation: dia‧log

dialog m inan

1. dialog

• See logos

• “dialog”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “dialog”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From dia- +‎ -log, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos).

• IPA^(key): [diaˈloˀ]

dialog c (singular definite dialogen, plural indefinite dialoger)

1. dialogue

• dialogisk

• monolog

• “dialog” in Den Danske Ordbog

dialog (plural dialog-dialog)

1. dialog

• dyaloge, dialoge, diolag, dialok, dialogge

Borrowed from Old French dialogue, from Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːalɔɡ(ə)/, /ˈdiːalɔːɡ(ə)/

dialog (plural dialogges)

1. A literary discussion or a work written as one.
   • 1475, Higden's Polychronicon:

     Seynte Aldelme returnyde to Briteyne..makenge mony noble bookes ... of the rewles of feete metricalle, of metaplasmus, of dialog metricalle.

2. (rare) An organised talk between two people.

• English: dialog, dialogue

• “dīalō̆g, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 February 2019.

dia- +‎ -log; from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγωμαι (dialégōmai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialoger, definite plural dialogene)

1. dialog

• samtale

• dialogsamtale

• monolog

• “dialog” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

dia- +‎ -log; from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγωμαι (dialégōmai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).

dialog m (definite singular dialogen, indefinite plural dialogar, definite plural dialogane)

1. dialog

• samtale

• dialogsamtale

• monolog

• “dialog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.lɔk/

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• Rhymes: -alɔk
• Syllabification: dia‧log

dialog m inan

1. dialog (conversation or other discourse between individuals)

   Synonym: rozmowa

• dialog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dialog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French dialogue.

dialog n (plural dialoguri)

1. dialog

dia- +‎ -log

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dialog c

1. dialog