Parlance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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