1) conversation 2) talk

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• conversation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Social talk Nouns 1. conversation, interlocution, intercourse; collocution, colloquy, converse, discussion, talkfest; confabulation; talk, discourse, social intercourse; oral communication, communion,… …   English dictionary for students

• conversation — con|ver|sa|tion [ ,kanvər seıʃn ] noun *** 1. ) count a talk between two or more people, usually a private and informal one: Later in the evening, the conversation turned to politics. conversation with/between: a conversation with my… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• conversation — [[t]kɒ̱nvə(r)se͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ conversations 1) N COUNT If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation. He s a talkative guy, and I struck up a conversation with him... I waited for her to finish a… …   English dictionary

• talk — {{11}}talk (n.) late 15c., speech, discourse, conversation, from TALK (Cf. talk) (v.). Meaning informal lecture or address is from 1859. Talk of the town first recorded 1620s. Talk show first recorded 1965; talk radio is from 1985. {{12}}talk… …   Etymology dictionary

• Conversation analysis — (commonly abbreviated as CA) is the study of talk in interaction (both verbal and non verbal in situations of everyday life). CA generally attempts to describe the orderliness, structure and sequential patterns of interaction, whether… …   Wikipedia

• Conversation — Con ver*sa tion, n. [OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life.] 1. General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Let… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• talk — [n1] speech, address to group allocution, chalk talk*, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed,… …   New thesaurus

• talk — [tôk] vi. [ME talken (akin to Fris, to chatter), prob. freq. based on OE talian, to reckon, akin to talu,TALE] 1. a) to put ideas into, or exchange ideas by, spoken words; speak; converse b) to express something in words; make a statement (of, on …   English World dictionary

• talk-show — [ tɔ(l)kʃo ] n. m. • 1987; mot angl. amér. (1965), de to talk « parler » et show « spectacle » ♦ Anglic. Émission de télévision consistant en une conversation entre un animateur et ses invités. Des talk shows. ● talk show, talk shows nom masculin …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Talk — Talk, n. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. [1913 Webster] In various talk the instructive hours they passed.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• talk (software) — talk was a program originally used for live text communication between different users of a single multi user computer running the Unix operating system. In 1983, a new version of talk was introduced as a Unix command with BSD v4.2, and would… …   Wikipedia