What's the difference between discussion and monologue?

Discussion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
  • (n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
  • (2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
  • (3) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
  • (4) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (5) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
  • (6) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (7) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (8) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (9) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
  • (10) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (11) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (12) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
  • (13) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (14) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
  • (15) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (16) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
  • (17) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (18) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (19) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
  • (20) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.

Monologue


Definition:

  • (n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
  • (n.) A dramatic composition for a single performer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is the show and that’s the best and worst thing about it,” he says, before using a recent parody of Beyoncé’s monologues in her visual album Lemonade as an example.
  • (2) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
  • (3) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
  • (4) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
  • (5) They are less into the substance and more into the optics.” But there was an underlining danger that a freewheeling, tweet-happy Trump would become irritated with the formulaic pre-approved monologues he was likely to hear from his guest.
  • (6) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
  • (7) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
  • (8) Astonishing as it may come to seem to media historians – especially if Desmond fulfils the worst expectations of observers – there was a time when Five specialised, in early evening peak time, in shows in which Tim Marlow delivered a monologue on an artist or art show.
  • (9) The older group’s videos usually involve a lengthy monologue in Arabic reminding Muslims of their various jihadi duties and little else.
  • (10) "If you didn't believe it before – and it's easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point – if you didn't believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world" Letterman during his monologue on his first show back after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
  • (11) It's one of the show's periodic "dark weeks", so the open-plan offices are almost empty, except for Oliver and his boss, Jon Stewart , who emerges briefly to perform an impromptu monologue about his plans to order falafel for lunch.
  • (12) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
  • (13) In his opening monologue he also referenced the police shootings in the US: “This year in the In Memoriam package, it’s just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on the way to the movies.” Rock made his personal stance on diversity in the film industry known in December 2014.
  • (14) Yet our confusions over the c-word are demonstrated by the fact that it has been common in recent years to find hundreds of women standing in a public arena and yelling the gynaecological obscenity: the setting is performances of the drama The Vagina Monologues, in which one sequence invites women to reclaim and empower the down-there noun.
  • (15) Ensler's brand of feminism has evolved since The Vagina Monologues.
  • (16) Four male volunteers provided 5-minute monologues in three conditions: Round 1,placebo; Round 2, 15 mg THC; Round 3, recovery.
  • (17) It's an unusual evening in a small, intimate theatre: just Lipton and three musicians telling the story, through song and monologue, of a man whose office is about to be relocated far, far away, taking his job with it.
  • (18) The patient provided 5-minute monologues both before and after drug effects.
  • (19) Results indicate that the semantic and conversational categories that occurred in monologue speech were similar to those that appeared in contextually matched dialogue speech but the proportional frequencies differed.
  • (20) He did the monologue, the sketch about the success of his presidency (featuring his daughter Ivanka playing herself), and a few other things, but his appearance was mostly limited to a few stray lines playing the straight man or quick appearances in the pre-taped sketches.