dialog

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UK/ˈdaɪəlɒɡ/US/ˈdaɪəlɑɡ/South Asia/ˈɖaɪ(ə)lɔɡ/

A form of dialogue — A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.

CommonScrabble 8

Meanings

noundialog (countable and uncountable, plural dialogs)

plural dialogs

  1. UScountableuncommonuncountableUncommon spelling of dialogue.

    The purpose of the dialog is not historical accuracy; the argument is all, as it is with Plato's Socrates.

    2008, Peter Kreeft, Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 10
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    Besides, a video post room's console is smaller than those used for film, and you couldn't squander a dozen or more channels on dialog.

    2008, Jay Rose, chapter 8, in Audio Postproduction for Film and Video (Motion Pictures), Focal Press, →ISBN, page 18-

    As we conclude our third annual report on explaining extreme events, the dialog around the value of attribution science is intensifying (Kerr 2013).

    2014, Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, “Explaining Extreme Events”, in American Meteorological Society, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2015
  2. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablecomputingEllipsis of dialog box.

    You'll be prompted with the New Project dialog (see Figure 1.11) from which you'll have at least two types of projects from which to choose […]

    2002, Christopher Tacke, Timothy Bassett, Embedded Visual Basic: Windows CE and Pocket PC Mobile Applications
verbdialog (third-person singular simple present dialogs, present participle dialoging, simple past and past participle dialoged)

present singular third person dialogs · participle present dialoging · participle past dialoged · past dialoged

  1. USuncommonUncommon spelling of dialogue.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna conversation between two persons

nounthe lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

Similar

nouna literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people

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Broader
literary compositionliterary work

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Dutch dialoogvenster
  • dialoogvenstercomputing: dialog box
Finnish valintaikkuna, dialogi
  • valintaikkunacomputing: dialog box
  • dialogicomputing: dialog box
German Dialogfenster, Dialog
  • Dialogfenstercomputing: dialog box
  • Dialogcomputing: dialog box
Hungarian párbeszéd, párbeszédablak
  • párbeszédcomputing: dialog box
  • párbeszédablakcomputing: dialog box
Portuguese diálogo
  • diálogocomputing: dialog box
Russian диало́г, диало́говое окно́
  • диало́г (dialóg)computing: dialog box
  • диало́говое окно́ (dialógovoje oknó)computing: dialog box
Swedish dialogruta
  • dialogrutacomputing: dialog box
Turkish sorgu kutusu
  • sorgu kutusucomputing: dialog box

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Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

dialog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialog

MLA

“dialog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialog. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dialog,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialog.

Source: dialog on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.