Sentence examples for parlance make from inspiring English sources

The open-source nature of most cryptocurrency systems means that it's trivially easy to make copies of the software (or "fork" its code, in developer parlance), make some modifications to the protocol and release it as a new, wholly separate system.

Seafoam (also known as mint-slash-robin-egg-blue in every day parlance) made many an appearance on the spring 2013 runways.

Happily, that moment appeared to be scheduled for well after my deadline, so – in time-honoured parlance – I made my excuses and left.

Not long ago, any kind of colorless, neutral-tasting fish product sold in the United States or Europe ("whitefish" in fishing industry parlance) was made out of one of several wild species of the taxonomic order Gadiformes: cod, pollock, haddock, hake, take your pick.

So, in today's American parlance, that makes it terrorism and him a terrorist.

They had no problem getting busy or doing a little soft extortion of their own, so it's entirely feasible that Durst was paying protection money, especially since they were "holding him down"—which in prison parlance means making sure nobody fucks with him or takes his shit.

In Gould and Vrba's parlance, this would make the unfused skull bones of human babies an exaptation for fitting through the birth canal.

Here is a group of people who ostensibly take commissions, fees, and salaries ('scrapes' in modern startup parlance) only to make the process of doing anything less efficient.

But that record, in Carl's punny parlance, "didn't make any noise".

In the way that regular people use the parlance of cinema to make everyday life worthy of the big screen ("It was so romantic/beautiful/ exciting/scary, it was like being in/better than a movie!"), Hollywood people borrow images from real life to give legitimacy to their fantasy-driven existences.

In political and journalistic parlance it had made sense of sorts to speak of Near and Far East, with a Middle falling between.