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Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is...

similar to an "administration" in the parlance of a presidential republic or to a "collective ministry" in the parlance of some Commonwealth countries. Each...

entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of...

to negotiate the resolution of a single, particular issue. In popular parlance, an envoy can mean a diplomat of any rank. Moreover, the rank of envoy...

of an orchestra stands on a podium as do many public speakers. Common parlance has shown an increasing use of podium in North American English to describe...

Eternity, in common parlance, is an infinite amount of time that never ends or the quality, condition or fact of being everlasting or eternal. Classical...

In current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multirole combat aircraft designed to operate both as an attack aircraft and as an air superiority...

strong safety would be a defensive halfback, a term still in Canadian parlance) or goaltender. The free safety tends to watch the play unfold and follow...

Soviet phraseology, or Sovietisms, i.e. the neologisms and cliches in the Russian language of the epoch of the Soviet Union, has a number of distinct traits...

tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. Modern english parlance uses "amphitheatre" for any structure with sloping seating, including theatre-style...

In espionage parlance, a cutout is a mutually trusted intermediary, method or channel of communication that facilitates the exchange of information between...

encipher or encode is to convert information into cipher or code. In common parlance, "cipher" is synonymous with "code", as they are both a set of steps that...

handia or pheni in Nepal, and referred to as country liquor in colloquial parlance. It is generally brewed from fermented molasses or occasionally rice. In...

brand page (also known as a page or fan page), in online social networking parlance, is a profile on a social networking website which is considered distinct...

lightweight smuggling vessels while the Dutch used them as raiders. In modern parlance, "pinnace" has come to mean an auxiliary vessel that does not fit under...

also be the reason for Karnal to be called the City of Karna in local parlance. Karna Lake is maintained by Haryana Tourism Corporation. Page 153, Tourism:...

character named Igor in the original Mary Shelley novel. The Igor of popular parlance is a composite character, based on characters created for the Universal...

The phrase is used in legally significant contexts as well as in common parlance. In law, time immemorial denotes "a period of time beyond which legal memory...

rhythm in the name, plus 'toon' is probably a more apt word, in modern parlance, than 'cartoon', for what I'm doing." Toonopedia author Donald David Markstein...

revised edition will appear in 1995, 128 p. Perversion of India's political parlance, New Delhi: Voice of India, 1984, 60 p. History of heroic Hindu resistance...