Jargon

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  • noun. The specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially when viewed as difficult to understand by outsiders.
  • noun. Nonsensical or incoherent language.
  • noun. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin. Not in technical use.
  • intransitive verb. To speak in or use jargon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To utter unintelligible sounds.
  • noun. A colorless, yellowish, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon from Ceylon.
  • noun. Confused, unintelligible talk; irregular, formless speech or language; gabble; gibberish; babble.
  • noun. Specifically A barbarous mixed speech, without literary monuments; a rude language resulting from the mixture of two or more discordant languages, especially of a cultivated language with a barbarous one: as, the Chinook jargon; the jargon called Pidgin-English.
  • noun. Any phraseology peculiar to a sect, profession, trade, art, or science; professional slang or cant.
  • noun. Synonyms Chatter, Babble, etc. See prattle, n.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish.
  • noun. an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
  • intransitive verb. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
  • noun. A variety of zircon. See zircon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A variety of zircon
  • noun. A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
  • noun. Language characteristic of a particular group.
  • noun. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
  • noun. specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  • noun. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  • Word Usage
    "While the jargon is all retro health and safety-education material, the culty fetishism is more J.G. Ballard than CPR."
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    chatter  
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    zircon  
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