amerikai:
brit:
1. Verbal exchange, conversation.
2. Expression in words, either speech or writing.
3. A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
4. Any rational expression, reason.
5. An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
6. Dealing; transaction.
1. To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
2. To write or speak formally and at length.
3. To debate.
4. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
5. To produce or emit (musical sounds).