(n.) Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were not oleophobe fanatics here to attack the Petrobras, nor Oil Firsters, here to kill him, his colleagues and all those who came to investigate or exploit, in their parlance, the visitations.
(2) The label of 'functional dyspepsia' is well-established medical parlance in these circumstances and is generally accepted as the converse of 'organic dyspepsia', which denotes dyspepsia for which a responsible disease process has been identified.
(3) Our skin is not being subjected to newfangled cosmetic preparations in order to observe whether we come out in plooks (Scots parlance for the common spot).
(4) That process is known as "incidental collection" in surveillance parlance.
(5) Every modern government returned with a majority looks to take advantage of its first few months when the opposition is in disarray by ditching some impractical pledges (“taking out the trash” in the parlance of special advisers), pushing through unpopular measures, maybe adding some nasty ones, while seeking to establish a narrative that will cause their electoral rivals difficulties once they have finished mourning the poll win that never came.
(6) When it comes to her political career, Clinton is a consummate politician – she is, in the parlance of the New York Times , “no angel”.
(7) Officials, not wanting to be lambasted for taking too prominent a role in the game, seem more keen than ever to, in the common parlance, “let them play”.
(8) In the parlance of his Justice and Development (AK) party this has been a democratic revolution, weeding out a “deep state” within a state.
(9) In addition to finance, one of the biggest areas of contentious is “differentiation” in UN parlance – which countries should bear the burden of cutting emissions that cause climate change.
(10) Multiplex, for its part, has become more and more keen to 'close the book', in construction parlance, on a job which has brought it unprecedented criticism, and led to tensions among the firm's hierarchy and shareholders in Australia.
(11) For many decades, thoughtful hacks have argued about whether journalism is a profession or a trade; in normal parlance, however, the opposite of "professional" is "amateur", and this is more in line with what is happening today - the notion that anyone can "do" journalism.
(12) McGuigan was sentenced to a “six pack”, which, translated from Belfast street parlance, means gunshot wounds to the feet, knees, hands and elbows.
(13) Previously, this data had been stripped out of NSA databases – "minimised", in intelligence agency parlance – under rules agreed between the two countries.
(14) Among Main's (1957) several cogent insights about the nature of defensive and countertransferential reactions to those so-called "special" patients who ungraciously refuse to improve - patients who in today's parlance would most assuredly be diagnosed as borderline - is his hypothesis that some of us may flee some of the time into research activities to avoid the frustrations and disappointments of clinical work.
(15) And the action against them therefore needed to be commensurate – concomitant in Cyril Ramaphosa's parlance .
(16) Other media have taken similar stands in public, with one private TV channel saying it intended to bar certain guests from its political programmes on charges of being “rumour mongers” – parlance for government critics.
(17) The word 'pleb' seems to have passed into common parlance."
(18) The chief instigator of offshore stress is time which in oil parlance is money, writes Patrick Whyte, an offshore medical officer.
(19) But his looming reincarnation as the all-powerful, executive president of Russia – the country's "paramount leader" in Chinese parlance – poses a stark challenge for which the US, Britain and other beleaguered western powers seem ill-prepared.
(20) Or in the parlance of the moment, "the strivers" v "the skivers".
Synonym
Definition:
(n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
Example Sentences:
(1) NNG codons are preferred over the synonymous NNA codons 5' to the positions of lysine in the genes.
(2) Aeromonas caviae is a later and illegitimate synonym of Aeromonas punctata.
(3) It has come to mean the objective description of the symptoms and signs of psychiatric illness, a synonym for clinical psychopathology as opposed to that other psychopathology which derives from psychoanalytic theory.
(4) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
(5) Ribosomes programmed by different synonymous codons also differ in discriminating among near-cognate aminoacylated tRNAs.
(6) It is not synonymous, however, with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
(7) Comparison of the two estimates suggests that during the course of evolution synonymous codon changes have accumulated in the alpha-chain-structural genes.
(8) A key for the determination, synonymes and diagnoses of the metacercariae of the 4 Ichthyocotylurus species are presented.
(9) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(10) Follicular mucinosis is not synonymous with alopecia mucinosa but is analogous to other histologic reaction patterns of cutaneous epithelium such as epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, and cornoid lamellation.
(11) The ratio of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the rodent lineage to that in the human lineage since their divergence is 2.0 for synonymous substitutions and 1.3 for nonsynonymous substitutions.
(12) Syrian peace talks break up after making only 'incremental progress' Read more “The child Omran is a victim of Assad’s barrel bombs and not the terrorism of Daesh,” wrote Kutaiba Yassin, a Syrian writer, using a synonym for Islamic State.
(13) Age differences in absolute decision time were greater for the synonyms than for the other word pairs, but the proportional slowing of decision time exhibited by the older adults was constant across word-pair type.
(14) An alternative process leads to the surprising conclusion that each non-synonymous site has accumulated as many as 2.6 substitutions, on the average, in the two lineages leading to humans and mice.
(15) Biocarbazin (DTIC synonym) is an anticancer drug acting as a purine analogue, as an alkylating agent, as a SH-group blocker.
(16) In addition, four synonymous substitutions with no amino-acid replacements were found at codons 51, 119, 163 and 175 in the LDH-A gene from the patient.
(17) "Corticoids" should not be used as a synonym for corticosteroids.
(18) Both the number of synonymous substitutions and the number of nonsynonymous substitutions in the CDR were found to exceed the corresponding numbers in the FR.
(19) Human P1 protein, which is the homolog of the 60- to 65-kD heat shock "common" antigenic protein of numerous pathogenic organisms (synonyms: HSP60, GroEL homolog, or chaperonin), has been expressed to high level in Escherichia coli cells.
(20) The atpB gene differed by two synonymous base substitutions, whereas the other two genes were identical in the two Aegilops cytoplasms.