Discord vs. Discourse
Discordnoun
Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
Discordnoun
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
Discordnoun
(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Discordnoun
Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
Discordverb
To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
Discordnoun
Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; - applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
Discordnoun
Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
Discordverb
To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
Discordnoun
lack of agreement or harmony
Discordnoun
disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Discordnoun
a harsh mixture of sounds
Discordnoun
strife resulting from a lack of agreement
Discordverb
be different from one another
Discoursenoun
Verbal exchange, conversation.
Discoursenoun
(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
Discoursenoun
(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
Discoursenoun
(countable) Any rational expression, reason.
Discoursenoun
An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
Discoursenoun
(obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
Discourseverb
(intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
Discourseverb
(intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
Discourseverb
To debate.
Discourseverb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourseverb
To produce or emit (musical sounds).
Discoursenoun
The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discoursenoun
Conversation; talk.
Discoursenoun
The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discoursenoun
Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
Discoursenoun
Dealing; transaction.
Discourseverb
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourseverb
To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Discourseverb
To relate something; to tell.
Discourseverb
To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourseverb
To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourseverb
To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discourseverb
To talk to; to confer with.
Discoursenoun
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
Discoursenoun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
Discoursenoun
an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic;
Discourseverb
to consider or examine in speech or writing;
Discourseverb
carry on a conversation
Discourseverb
talk or hold forth formally about a topic;
Discourse
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis.
