Word Finder - conversation

definition

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.

example

I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.

synonyms

• banter
• chat
• chinwag
• dialogue
• discussion
• interlocution
• powwow
• table talk

definition

The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

definition

The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.

definition

Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.

definition

Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.

definition

Sexual intercourse.

definition

Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.

synonyms

• familiarity
• understanding

definition

To engage in conversation (with).

Had he heard her conversation with Sarah?

I had no idea where this conversation was going.

Did he overhear her conversation with Connie?

This conversation is going nowhere you don't want it to go.

That served another purpose when the conversation turned to the possibility of another child.

The conversation was getting too personal.

She continued the conversation as if nothing had happened.

Conversation with Dulce was futile.

He was good at deceptive conversation – too good.

The conversation was over - or so she thought.

But I know of no one who would want to have a conversation with a computer program pretending to be his dog.

She didn't mention the conversation or the money.

Everyone relaxed and the conversation did a one-eighty.

She was forbidden to engage the operator in any conversation and make the call as brief as possible.

That much she knew from a conversation she had overheard between two men in Ashley.

You won't escape!--from that moment this conversation began, contrary to all the laws of logic and contrary to them because quite different subjects were talked about at one and the same time.

On the positive side, at that rate their conversation should be over by five minutes after nine.

I want someone who can contribute intelligent conversation, not grovel at my feet.

Was he actually avoiding conversation with his father?

It was difficult enough to stay with him - conversation was impossible.

The conversation was moving a little fast.

Their conversation was very simple and unimportant.

Finally she plunged into conversation with him.

The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics.

I'm trying to have a conversation.

Oh yes, he had overheard her conversation with Allen earlier and made his own deductions.

Would she have been able to hear his conversation behind a closed door?

He really was in their way, for he alone took no part in the conversation which again became general.

After their conversation, she leaned back in the chair to get some rest.

She met his regard with equal composer, in spite of the fact that the conversation was beginning to make her feel extremely uncomfortable.

With Mademoiselle Bourienne's help the princess had maintained the conversation very well, but at the very last moment, just when he rose, she was so tired of talking of what did not interest her, and her mind was so full of the question why she alone was granted so little happiness in life, that in a fit of absent-mindedness she sat still, her luminous eyes gazing fixedly before her, not noticing that he had risen.

Lisa hesitated, not wanting to pry and not sure if the conversation was supposed to end there.

He was always busy, and only at night allowed himself conversation--of which he was fond--and songs.

She wanted to talk to Bordeaux about it, but they were moving so fast that conversation was impossible.

I SEE NO SENSE IN "FAKING" CONVERSATION FOR THE SAKE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE.

At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre's marriage.

The conversation was resumed, and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone of Nicholas' last remark.

Conversation was copied verbatim.

If I refuse to talk to her, she spells into her own hand, and apparently carries on the liveliest conversation with herself.

Berg returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three officers became animated.

Their way of life and place of residence, their acquaintances and ties, Natasha's occupations, the children's upbringing, were all selected not merely with regard to Pierre's expressed wishes, but to what Natasha from the thoughts he expressed in conversation supposed his wishes to be.

By the end of their conversation, he understood why she laughed, too.

Gerald's gaze shifted briefly to Alex, who continued reading as if he hadn't heard their conversation.

Enough appears in the accounts by Miss Keller's teacher to show the process by which she reads the lips with her fingers, the process by which she was taught to speak, and by which, of course, she can listen to conversation now.

Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is already prepared...

As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, it was long before their conversation could settle on anything.

In the middle of a sober conversation begun by Ilagin about the year's harvest, Nicholas pointed to the red-spotted bitch.

She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew.

The conversation at supper was not about politics or societies, but turned on the subject Nicholas liked best--recollections of 1812.

I settled in my most comfortable chair and was ready for a long conversation.