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jargon
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    This is a bit of jargon related to ancient serial computers.  (source)
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    Here, Dr. Niehoff ventured off script when he lapsed into a bit of technical jargon, as happened so often when experts couldn't resist the temptation to impress their listeners.  (source)
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    Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon — not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words — which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.  (source)
    jargon = specialized vocabulary
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    The term operations was jargon, but it meant field work.  (source)
    jargon = words or expressions commonly used in a particular field but not elsewhere
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    Yes, those were noble names on the dusky flyleaf and, even for so poor a Latinist as he, the dusky verses were as fragrant as though they had lain all those years in myrtle and lavender and vervain; but yet it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture and that the monkish learning, in terms of which he was striving to forge out an esthetic philosophy, was held no higher by the age he lived in than the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry.†  (source)
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    Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!†  (source)
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    The air was soon thick with jargon and code.  (source)
    jargon = specialized vocabulary
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    And the little cries, the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by another,—all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial glories.†  (source)
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    Elegant mind was just mathtalk, that patronizing jargon the math nerds used, but it hurt Jimmy anyway.  (source)
    jargon = words or expressions commonly used in a particular field but not elsewhere
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    I'm no fan of the latest French theory or of jargon of any stripe, but sometimes we really can't do without it.  (source)
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    People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as "Cleckley" psychopaths.  (source)
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    "Daemon" is an old piece of jargon from the UNIX operating system, where it referred to a piece of low-level utility software, a fundamental part of the operating system.†  (source)
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    The crewmen at their separate stations went through the standard hundred-headed procedure, the gunner floating alone in the tail turret at the end of a crawlway, the EW officer shoehorned into a cubicle at the rear of the upper deck, and down in the squat black hole Louis Bakey let a yawn come rolling out and looked at the panels, switches and monitors that encased him in a more or less total monopoly of avionic jargon and he half nudged the navigator pressed in next to him.†  (source)
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    Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.  (source)
    Jargon = nonsensical use of words.
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    But, as I said before, it is jargon, not reason, you must rely on.  (source)
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