parlance

4 definitions found

parlance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Parlance \Par"lance\ (p[aum]r"lans), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to
     speak. See Parley.]
     Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
     parlance; in common parlance.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.   --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster] Parlando

parlance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  parlance
      n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of
           a language [syn: parlance, idiom]

parlance - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Parlance
  
     A concurrent language.
  
     ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and
     Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin
     1979].
  
     (1994-12-12)
  

parlance - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "parlance":
     choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression,
     formulation, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, langue, lingo,
     lingua, locution, parole, personal usage, phrase, phraseology,
     phrasing, rhetoric, speech, talk, tongue, usage, use of words,
     usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording