conference
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle French conférence, from Medieval Latin cōnferentia, from Latin cōnferēns, omitting several steps, from con- + ferō.
Compare parallel Russian собра́ние (sobránije), Russian сбо́рище (sbórišče), akin to с- (s-), со- (so-) + брать (bratʹ), ultimately from the same Indo-European prefix and root. Also compare congress, convention.
Inflected forms:
form: conferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conferences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conferencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conferenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conferenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
pos: noun
examples: Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old.
Mr. Wiley, a lawyer of some ability, was sitting in his office one day, when an elderly gentleman came in and asked to have a few words of conference with him.
gloss: The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: helps and furtherances which […] the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford
gloss: A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
pos: noun
gloss: A formal event where scientists or other scholars present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
pos: noun
gloss: An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
pos: noun
gloss: A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
pos: noun
gloss: A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
pos: noun
gloss: A talk or lecture, (Catholicism) especially when given as part of a retreat.
pos: noun
examples: “[…]But I do know of a man who is an expert on the topic. In fact, he gave a conference here in our church not very long ago.[…]”
She gave a conference each evening during the retreat while Fr Dubas gave two talks during the day.
Frank Underhill listened intensely as Father Master began his conference that first evening after prayers in chapel at 7:00 p.m. with an enthusiastic and entertaining account of his own first night in the Society[…].
When Brother Lee came to the United States, the first conference he gave was in 1962 on the all-inclusive Christ. All the attendees were new ones, yet he did not consider that the all-inclusive Christ was too high for them. No, he gave a conference on the all-inclusive Christ, including all these points from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
In July 2004 in Finland he gave a conference on the link between prayer and ecology, and in July 2006, speaking to some German deaconesses, he gave an an-yet-unpublished conference on a similar topic titled “Transfiguration as an Icon of the Consecrated Life.”
gloss: To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.
Related words: discussant
lecturer
parleyer
prelector
speaker
Derived words: audioconference
conference bike
conference call
conferencee
conference-goer
conferencegoer
conference interpreter
conference interpreting
conferencelike
conference matrix
conferencer
conference room
conference table
conferencewide
consensus conference
cyberconference
interconference
intraconference
judicial conference
junk conference
megaconference
multiconference
news conference
nonconference
preconference
predatory conference
press conference
science by press conference
Scoutmaster conference
spamference
status conference
subconference
superconference
teleconference
telephone conference
traffic conference area
unconference
videoconference
video conference
web conference
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