dialog

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

dialog
    n 1: a conversation between two persons [syn: {dialogue},
         {dialog}, {duologue}]
    2: the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction [syn:
       {dialogue}, {dialog}]
    3: a literary composition in the form of a conversation between
       two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original
       Greek" [syn: {dialogue}, {dialog}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

DIALOG

   1. A commercial bibliographic database and retrieval service
   from DIALOG Information Services.

   2. Interactive mathematics using a {graphics tablet} by
   Illinois Inst Tech, 1966.

   ["DIALOG: A Conversational Programming System with a Graphical
   Orientation", S.H. Cameron et al, CACM 10:349-357 (1967).
   Sammet 1969, p.255-258].

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