jargon
/ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/ verb C2- To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
He/she/it jargons · Past jargoned · Past participle jargoned · -ing form jargoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- jargon
- He/she/it
- jargons
- Past
- jargoned
- Past participle
- jargoned
- -ing form
- jargoning
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Why shouldn’t we use a little art jargon.
Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundred steps beneath the interior porticoes of the ruin, when, abandoning Albert to the guides (who would by no means yield their prescriptive right of carrying their victims through the routine regularly laid down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the “Lions’ Den”, the “Hall of the Gladiators” and finishing with “Cæsar’s Podium”), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic dimensions of the majestic ruin.
He masterfully translated the esoteric jargon of the river into a lyrical idiom that resonated with a burgeoning national audience.
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