(a conversation)
81conversation stopper — UK / US noun [countable, usually singular] Word forms conversation stopper : singular conversation stopper plural conversation stoppers informal something surprising or shocking that you say that makes everyone stop talking and unable to think… …
82conversation — Manner of living; behavior habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase chaste life and conversation. Criminal conversation means seduction of another man s wife, considered as an actionable injury to the husband. See criminal (criminal… …
83conversation — Manner of living; behavior habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase chaste life and conversation. Criminal conversation means seduction of another man s wife, considered as an actionable injury to the husband. See criminal (criminal… …
84conversation — n. 1 the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words. 2 an instance of this. Phrases and idioms: conversation piece 1 a small genre painting of a group of figures. 2 a thing that serves as a topic of conversation because of its unusualness etc.… …
85Conversation Piece — Infobox Song Name =Conversation Piece Border = Caption = Type =B side of The Prettiest Star Artist =David Bowie alt Artist = Album = Published = Released =6 March 1970 Recorded = Genre = Length =3:05 Writer =David Bowie Label =Mercury Producer… …
86Conversation with the Beast — Gespräch mit dem Biest Gespräch mit dem Biest (Conversation with the Beast[1]) est un film allemand réalisé par Armin Mueller Stahl en 1996. Pour son début de directeur, Mueller Stahl a choisi une farce de Hitler. Le film parle d un chercheur… …
87conversation analysis — A research method that takes conversations in real life settings as the object of study, and as a window on to the roles, social relationships, and power relations of participants. Derived largely from ethnomethodology and sociolinguistics , it… …
88Conversation secrète — The Conversation Film policier de Francis Ford Coppola, avec Gene Hackman (Harry Caul), John Cazale (Stan), Allen Garfield (Bernie Moran), Frederic Forrest (Mark), Cindy Williams (Ann), Harrison Ford (Martin Stett), Teri Garr (Amy), Robert… …
89conversation — obsolete copulation The usage must have led to widespread embarrassment and misunderstanding: His conversation with Shaw s wife. (Shakespeare, Richard III) See also criminal conversation …
90conversation piece — or conversation galante A portrait of a group of earnest people. Conversation galante is the original and French form of this term, often equivalent to or a variant of the fête galante, made popular by Watteau …
