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English to English noun
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extended verbal expression in speech or writing |  | source: wordnet30
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an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | | source: wordnet30
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an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | | Example: the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic
his treatment of the race question is badly biased
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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to consider or examine in speech or writing | | Example: The author talks about the different aspects of this question
The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'
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carry on a conversation | | source: wordnet30
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talk at length and formally about a topic | | Example: The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England
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To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. | | source: webster1913
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To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. | | source: webster1913
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