(n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
(v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
(n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(2) But an experienced senior officer said Hogan-Howe had impressed since becoming temporary commissioner, telling junior officers what he wanted in "jargon-free and clear language."
(3) Jargon incorporated familiar intonational contours and prosodic features to convey emotional states and communicative functions.
(4) Behind these numbers, behind this legal jargon are actual families who have not had justice for decades and decades … some of this can get glossed over when you’re just thinking about it in policy terms.
(5) Such attitudes toward illness were found in 19 of 20 jargon subjects, and seven of the comparison group.
(6) Carbon dioxide's production of greenhouse gas is not factored into its price – in the jargon, an unpriced externality, he says.
(7) According to the criteria of intelligibility, phonemic and semantic paraphasias in spontaneous speech, 4 forms of Wernicke's aphasia are differentiated: 1) with predominantly semantic paraphasias, 2) with semantic jargon, 3) with predominantly phonemic paraphasias and 4) with phonemic jargon.
(8) Some former communist countries, known in the jargon as "countries in transition", were allowed to chose a different date because after the collapse of communism many closed heavy industries.
(9) Lethal strikes by CIA drones – including two this week alone – have combined with the monitoring and disruption of electronic communications, suspicion and low morale to take their toll on al-Qaida's Pakistani "core", in the jargon of western intelligence agencies.
(10) Such jargon can be clarified by questions asked at the moment of discussion.
(11) Mobile X-ray generators vary widely in design, cost and radiographic performance and the new designs of recent years have led to the introduction of jargon.
(12) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
(13) Disease-specific dementias, pseudodementia, and delirium are three clinical situations that may or may not be classified as "reversible dementias," depending on individual training, custom, and jargon.
(14) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(15) You have to try and understand the jargon in a room full of white people – who say they know what is best for you.
(16) These strategies include employing attentive patient care, attending to the use of jargon, and using self-empowering language.
(17) As an academic, he was stern – particularly on bad writing and jargon, for which he had Orwellian distaste.
(18) In campaigning jargon, Rahman knows how to maximise his core.
(19) In Whitehall jargon, the deals are “bespoke” – in short, varying in significant details – with Greater Manchester getting responsibility for a £6bn budget to integrate health and social care .
(20) And, although services like BBC One are far more distinctive, to use the jargon, than they used to be – more origination, much less acquisition, more news, drama, documentary, less entertainment than in the past.
Shibboleth
Definition:
(n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.
(n.) Also in an extended sense.
(n.) Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the former foreign secretary does narrowly win after all, he will take over a party where the ground has shifted decisively against New Labour shibboleths, where his rivals now command powerful constituencies and where the battle over cuts will shape the political agenda.
(2) One camp might allege Islamophobia while the other makes reference to extremism and radicalisation, and claims that the great shibboleths of diversity and multiculturalism excuse no end of sins.
(3) They make a shibboleth of a single tax rate and allow symbolism to trump real reform.
(4) Trump ends California swing marked by bold remarks, criticism and violence Read more “So tonight,” he said, “to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support.” Nixon had created a cultural shibboleth: the silent majority , the conservative masses, appalled at the cultural and political advances of the 1960s, ready to reel them back in.
(5) But as one New Labour shibboleth after another, from nationalisation to higher taxes on the rich, has fallen under the pressure of the crisis, it has certainly underlined the price of the corporate embrace that has been its lodestar from its inception (and the Conservatives', naturally, long before that).
(6) Labour, he says, is in danger of turning high marginal tax rates, a large state, and "snapshots of income inequality" into shibboleths.
(7) The shibboleths would indeed be disregarded and, by 2002, the not much better Network Rail had replaced Railtrack.
(8) Huhne was making enemies by his willingness to challenge Tory shibboleths in public and in his confident, abrasive way.
(9) Essentially, her committee was saying, by 1998, what a subsequent transport minister, Stephen Byers, would be admitting in 2001, that Railtrack was no good, that partial renationalisation at least was a very strong option and that shibboleths should be disregarded.
(10) They will also have to work out where they sit in a new political system that will take shape free of no end of shibboleths – not least the 20th-century assumption that the centre-left should be led by Labour.
(11) But what he called "the fight against bad English" is too often understood, thanks to the perversities of his own example, as a philistine and joyless campaign in favour of that shibboleth of dull pedants "plain English".
(12) He dumped liberal shibboleths to cast himself as pro-business and -trade, tough on crime and welfare.
(13) Entire papers, conferences, consultancies and even startup businesses, can be spun out of those shibboleths.
(14) Yet inegalitarian shibboleths such as balanced budgets and corporate tax relief will be retained.
(15) It is a classic example of old progressive myopia, making a shibboleth of one aspect of the tax system rather than looking at it in the round.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Shibboleth’, by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo.
(17) It will be stripped of "liberal shibboleths" – all that namby-pamby stuff about children expressing their creativity, presumably – in favour of no-nonsense drilling in literacy and numeracy, lots of sport and "martial values" of self-discipline and respect.
(18) For reasons that remain obscure the rejection of climate science has become a shibboleth for rightwing culture warriors, whose views drive not only Abbott himself, but the majority of his backbench.
(19) America Magazine and the Tablet : America Magazine, published by the Catholic Jesuit order, has already begun reporting on moves to resist immigration raids, and regularly features opinion contrasting the teachings of Pope Francis with the shibboleths of American conservatism.
(20) A mere tax "shibboleth", he said, at a time when real reform would focus on taxing unearned wealth and pollution.