1. A male human being; man
2. A dashing fellow; dandy
3. Buckskin; also; an article (as a shoe) made of buckskin
4. An act or instance of bucking
5. Responsibility — used especially in the phrases pass the buck and the buck stops here

(Homonym: caul, col).
1. Brief visit in an official or professional capacity.
2. A brief social visit.
3. A demand especially in the phrase; SYN. claim.
4. A demand for a show of hands in a card game.
5. A request.
6. A telephone connection; SYN. phone call, telephone call.

An informal conversation; SYN. confab, confabulation.

ETYM AS. cin, akin to OS. kin, G kinn, Icel. kinn, cheek, Dan. and Swed. kind, Latin gena, Greek; cf. Skr. hanu.
The protruding part of the lower jaw; SYN. mentum.

1. Idle talk
2. A usually high inside pitch in baseball intended to intimidate the batter

CONVERSATION, CHAT

1. Rapid continuous talk; chatter; tongue
2. (archaic) An object (as a valve) that produces clapping or rattling noises usually in regular rapid sequence
3. A sound of clacking

1. An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
2. An address to an academic meeting or seminar.

ETYM Latin colloquium. Related to Collocution.
1. A conversation especially a formal one.
2. Formal conversation.
3. Conversation; dialogue.
4. Speaking together; mutual discourse.

ETYM Latin communicatio.
The sending and receiving of messages. The messages can be verbal or nonverbal; verbal messages can be spoken or written, and transmitted in a variety of ways (see telecommunications). Most nonverbal messages between human beings are in the form of body language.
Verbal messages are by no means the clearest and most powerful. The sense of touch, for example, is one of the most forceful methods of communication.In biology, the signaling of information by one organism to another, usually with the intention of altering the recipient’s behavior. Signals used in communication may be visual (such as the human smile or the display of colorful plumage in birds), auditory (for example, the whines or barks of a dog), olfactory (such as the odors released by the scent glands of a deer), electrical (as in the pulses emitted by electric fish), or tactile (for example, the nuzzling of male and female elephants).1. The activity of communicating; SYN. communicating.
2. Something that is communicated between people or groups.
3. A connection allowing access between persons or places.

ETYM Latin confabulatio.
(Psychiatry) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.

ETYM French conférence. Related to Confer.
1. A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic; SYN. group discussion.
2. A prearranged meeting for consultation or or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda).

ETYM Old Eng. conversacio, Old Fren. conversacion, French conversation, from Latin conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, Late Lat. also, manner of life.
Speech used for informal exchange of views.

ETYM Old Eng. dialogue, Latin dialogus, from Greek, to converse, dia through + lego to speak: cf. French dialogue. Related to Legend.
Conversation between two or more people. Dialogue is direct speech, so it is represented in writing as a series of quotations, using quotation marks or, in dramatic dialogue, the characters' names followed by their speeches.
1. A conversation between two persons; SYN. dialog, duologue.
2. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; SYN. dialog.
3. The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction; SYN. dialog.

ETYM Latin discursus a running to and fro, discourse, from discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. French discours. Related to Course.
Extended verbal expression in speech or writing.

Conversation; interruption.

ETYM French entrevue, from entrevoir to see imperfectly, to have a glimpse of, s'entrevoir to visit each other. Related to Inter-, and View.
The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists.
Face-to-face meeting where one party, the interviewer, wishes to collect information from another party, the interviewee. Interviews are commonly used in selecting people for jobs. Banks and building societies also use interviews for processing applications for loans, and market researchers conduct interviews to gather information about the market they are investigating.

ETYM Spanish palabra, or Portu. palavra, from Latin parabola a comparison, a parable, Late Lat., a word. Related to Parable.
Loud and confused and empty talk; SYN. hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric.

1. The act of speech.
2. An exchange of ideas via conversation; SYN. talking.
3. A act of giving a talk to an audience
4. Idle gossip or rumor; SYN. talk of the town.
5. ('talk about' is a less formal alternative for 'discussion of') Discussion

Chatter

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mode of operation, typical of microcomputers, in which the computer user and the system engage in a dialogue of commands and system responses. See also interactive.

To make a start.

ETYM Cf. French communicable, Late Lat. communicabilis.
Readily communicated.

ETYM Cf. French Communicatif, Late Lat. communicativus.
1. Able or tending to communicate; SYN. communicatory.
2. Of or relating to communication.

In a communicable manner, transmittably, in a transferrable manner

Openly, unreservedly, talkatively

In a conversational manner, talkatively; openly, informally

A chew especially of tobacco.

The trait of being communicative.