parlance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: parlance	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for parlance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parlance n a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language Synonym(s): parlance, idiom
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parlance \Par"lance\, n. [OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See {Parley}.] Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Parlance A {concurrent} language. ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin 1979]. (1994-12-12)