Parole — meaning in English
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English meaning
- call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- floor noun The surface on which you walk inside a room or building.
- speaking noun The act of talking or communicating with one's voice.
- speech noun The ability to speak, or spoken language in general.
- utterance noun An act of, or the process of, uttering.
- word noun The smallest unit of language that carries meaning on its own, made up of one or more sounds or letters.
Senses
Parole is used for these senses in English:
- Word The creative word of God; Logos.
- call (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- floor (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- speaking One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language.
- speech (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- speech (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- utterance An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially, linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
- word (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
call — full definition
- verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
- verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
- verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
- noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.
floor — full definition
- noun The surface on which you walk inside a room or building.
- noun A storey or level of a building.
- noun A set minimum limit, especially for a price or rate.
- verb To knock someone down, or to shock or overwhelm them completely.