(n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
(n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychical assessment was evaluated by colloquy and by the administration of some psychodiagnostic tests: EPI, MMPI, Zung.
(2) Finally, Sigerist stresses the fact that, in addition to these four lecture courses, seminars and a colloquy may provide students with the possibility of working on a specific subject in more detail.
(3) In subsequent colloquy, the president stressed that we would be "in a bad position" if we chose to set off an international conflagration by rejecting proposals that would seem quite reasonable to survivors, if any cared.
(4) Clapper has already apologised for untruthfully testifying during a March Senate colloquy with Wyden that the NSA does "not wittingly" collect data on millions of Americans.
(5) To highlight the report and its findings , the White House is hosting a series of events this afternoon, including a Rose Garden colloquy called “Weather from the White House”, billed as a conversation between the president and “local and national meteorologists”.
Dialogue
Definition:
(n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
(n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
(v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(v. t.) To express as in dialogue.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(2) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(3) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
(4) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(5) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(6) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(8) We would welcome a dialogue between researchers, manufacturers and regulatory authorities.
(9) Hugo de Armas, 37, from Tenerife, whose tent was one of the first to arrive outside St Paul's, said: "We have created a space for dialogue, I hope to stay here for Christmas, longer."
(10) • Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has accepted a proposal by the German chancellor, Angel Merkel, to set up a “fact-finding mission” that would pave the way for some form of political dialogue in the crisis, according to the German government.
(11) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(12) Thus, failure to include consumers on health policy boards guarantees the absence of a solution-oriented dialogue and promotes the continuing predominance of a provider-biased ideology.
(13) Following references to the development of the discipline and of the possible misunderstandings involved in an interpretation of the term "integration", the author makes reference to the dialogue-like structure of integration.
(14) He shared platforms with the Prince of Wales and, in 2008, spoke at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on the value of dialogue between civilisations.
(15) Fundamental to all of this, though, hopefully will be a dialogue among the many disciplines concerned with human research.
(16) There will be dialogue and discussions about what works, rather than rude surprises that backfire.
(17) Any dialogue between the new elected leader and China would imply a big shift in Chinese position, which is highly unlikely.
(18) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
(19) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
(20) We could also expand our bilateral human rights dialogues with China and Vietnam to other nations within the Asia Pacific.” She said a moratorium could be the first step towards ending the death penalty globally.