What's the difference between lingo and slang?

Lingo


Definition:

  • (n.) Language; speech; dialect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chronic pain patients evidenced lower scores on all Harris and Lingoes Sc subscales, except for the Bizarre Sensory Experiences subscale on which they scored significantly higher than the psychiatric groups.
  • (2) Substantial genetic correspondences also existed for Harris-Lingoes content subscales, with fewer correspondences between adoptees and their adoptive mothers.
  • (3) Some have even altered the lingo and banned the word “beneficiary”, opting for “client” instead.
  • (4) Charting the shopping and mating rituals of Manhattan's female socialites, it became not only a bestseller but an era-defining work responsible for introducing lingo such as "toxic bachelor" to women worldwide.
  • (5) Lamb's page on the BBC website even offers a dictionary so that listeners might gen up on "Lamby's lingo".
  • (6) He spoke the lingo and he danced the samba and he always had a soft spot for the underdog … Ashes to ashes and dust to beaches."
  • (7) Harris and Lingoes' (1955) six PD subscales were assessed empirically for their convergent validity and for their utility to discriminate amongst male offenders on the two outcome measures of successful completion of sentences at a correctional halfway house and reincarceration at a 1-year follow-up.
  • (8) Predictor variables included scores on the five Harris-Lingoes Psychopathic-Deviate subscales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R scores, and sex, age, parent, and sibling information.
  • (9) subscales of Psychological Denial and Body Concern, and the five Harris-Lingoes (1955) subscales of Scale 3 were analyzed.
  • (10) Judges developed more content categories per scale than Harris and Lingoes, but showed relatively little agreement on item groupings.
  • (11) I didn't really need to learn any lingo but I tried to convey their sense of persistence, where they ask questions and piece together a puzzle.
  • (12) Distributions of all possible split-half combinations were computed for selected Harris-Lingoes subscales with few items.
  • (13) Wiggins, Harris and Lingoes, and Serkownek Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores were used to predict Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) scores in a 100-patient sample.
  • (14) In addition, MMPI data from 1,315 normal adolescents, collected at the Mayo Foundation, and from 217 normal adolescents, collected in Norfolk, Virginia, are evaluated in relation to adult normative values on the Harris-Lingoes (Harris & Lingoes, 1955) content subscales to identify unique characteristics of adolescents' response patterns.
  • (15) 5.03pm GMT Those savvy internet-types over at the Associated Press have put together a "glossary" of Twitter terms, because they reckon that "Twitter-specific lingo that could look like alphabet soup to the uninitiated".
  • (16) Two multidimensional scaling procedures, INDSCAL (Carroll & Chang, 1970) and SSAI-MINISSA (Guttman, 1968; Lingoes, 1965), were applied to the similarity data, yielding flavor spaces or maps which were similar to one another.
  • (17) During moments of rest, the police on my protection detail would be hunched over iPads watching and talking the same strange lingo.
  • (18) Mexican American and Anglo American's performance on the Wiggins Content Scales, Harris-Lingoes subscales, and Serkownek subscales was assessed in a college student population.
  • (19) But where did BuzzFeed learn its hypermodern slangy lingo?
  • (20) She followed him around the country: "I do disgusting work now, do feel sorry for me, it's in the YMCA canteen and it's very embarrassing because they all copy my voice," both its extraordinary vowels and the racy Mitford lingo.

Slang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sling. Slung.
  • (n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
  • (n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
  • (n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
  • (v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
  • () of Sling

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
  • (2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
  • (3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
  • (4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
  • (5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
  • (6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
  • (7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
  • (8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
  • (9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
  • (10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
  • (11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
  • (12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
  • (13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
  • (14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
  • (15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
  • (16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
  • (17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
  • (18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
  • (19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
  • (20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.