What's the difference between jargon and spiff?

Jargon


Definition:

  • (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.

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