Subdialog

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dialog making up part of a larger dialog.
  2. 2
    A dialog box opened from another dialog box.

    "From the Font dialog, click Advanced to open a subdialog with further typographical settings."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Below the level of dialog. not-comparable

    "The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and utterances are labeled at the subdialog level."

Example

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"The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) differentiates itself from the previous three editions as follows: the number of slot-value pairs present in the ontology is much larger, no spoken language understanding output is given, and utterances are labeled at the subdialog level."

Etymology

From sub- + dialog.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.