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jar·gon
(jär′gən)n.
1. The specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially when viewed as difficult to understand by outsiders: a crime novel that uses a lot of police jargon.
2. Nonsensical or incoherent language: "Your description will be considered as mere jargon by every man of sense" (Alexander Hamilton).
3. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin. Not in technical use.
intr.v. jar·goned, jar·gon·ing, jar·gons
To speak in or use jargon.
[Middle English jargoun, from Old French jargon, probably of imitative origin.]
jar′gon·ist, jar′gon·eer′ n.
jar′gon·is′tic adj.
jar′gon·y adj.
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jargon
(ˈdʒɑːɡən)n
1. (Linguistics) specialized language concerned with a particular subject, culture, or profession
2. language characterized by pretentious syntax, vocabulary, or meaning
3. gibberish
4. (Linguistics) another word for pidgin
vb
(intr) to use or speak in jargon
[C14: from Old French, perhaps of imitative origin; see gargle]
jargon
(ˈdʒɑːɡɒn) orjargoon
n
(Geological Science) mineralogy rare a golden yellow, smoky, or colourless variety of zircon
[C18: from French, from Italian giargone, ultimately from Persian zargūn of the golden colour; see zircon]
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jar•gon
(ˈdʒɑr gən, -gɒn)n.
1. the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
2. unintelligible talk or writing; gibberish; babble.
3. pidgin.
4. language that is characterized by uncommon or pretentious vocabulary and convoluted syntax and is often vague in meaning.
v.i. 5. to jargonize.
[1300–50; Middle English jargoun < Middle French; Old French jargon, gargun, derivative of an expressive base *garg-; see gargle, gargoyle]
jar′gon•y, jar`gon•is′tic, adj.
syn: See language.
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jargon
Past participle: jargoned
Gerund: jargoning
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jargon
A language that is special to a profession, culture, or subject, often technical, and is not easily understood by outsiders; also used to mean any apparently nonsensical language .
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| Noun | 1. | jargon - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" bite - a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" swiz - British slang for a swindle shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail) power trip - (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people dekko - British slang for a look square-bashing - drill on a barracks square shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" caff - informal British term for a cafe deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs Mickey Finn - slang term for knockout drops nick - (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick" cert - an absolute certainty; "it's a dead cert" legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs" soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache bunghole - vulgar slang for anus street name - slang for something (especially for an illegal drug); "`smack' is a street name for heroin" corker - (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person; "that story was a corker" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing codswallop, folderol, trumpery, wish-wash, applesauce, tripe, rubbish, trash - nonsensical talk or writing skin flick - a pornographic movie dibs - a claim of rights; "I have dibs on that last slice of pizza" non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang" burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road nosh-up - a large satisfying meal hood - (slang) a neighborhood 'hood - (slang) a neighborhood airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" bad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person boffin - (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person guvnor - (British slang) boss old man - (slang) boss out-and-outer - someone who is excellent at something schlockmeister, shlockmeister - (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise squeeze - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze" suit - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" tripper - (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations juice - electric current; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice" big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile, bundle - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" key - a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin" skinful - a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful" juice - energetic vitality; "her creative juices were flowing" the trots - obscene terms for diarrhea |
| 2. | jargon - a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon zircon, zirconium silicate - a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent | |
| 3. | jargon - specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" doctorspeak - medical jargon ecobabble - using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware Eurobabble - the jargon of European community documents and regulations gobbledygook - incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists psychobabble - using language loaded with psychological terminology technobabble - technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects |
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jargon
noun parlance, slang, idiom, patter, tongue, usage, dialect, cant, lingo (informal), patois, argot full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses
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jargon
noun1. Unintelligible or foolish talk:
2. A variety of a language that differs from the standard form:
3. Specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture:
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لُغَه خاصَّه
hantýrkaslangžargon
fagsprogjargon
ammattikielijargonmongerrusslangi
szaknyelvszakzsargontolvajnyelvzsargonblabla
sérmál
žargons
cargonözel dil
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jargon
n → Jargon m (pej), → Fachsprache f
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jargon
(ˈdʒaːgən) noun special words or phrases used within a group, trade or profession etc. legal jargon; medical jargon; Thieves use a special jargon in order to confuse passing hearers.
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jar·gon
n. jerga, jerigonza; parafasia. V.: paraphasia
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