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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCUSSION, n.
1. In surgery, resolution; the dispersion of a tumor or any coagulated matter.
2. Debate; disquisition; the agitation of a point or subject with a view to elicit truth; the treating of a subject by argument, to clear it of difficulties, and separate truth from falsehood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" [syn: discussion, treatment, discourse]
2: an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" [syn: discussion, give-and-take, word]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. consideration of a question in open and usually informal debate 2. a formal treatment of a topic in speech or writing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a conversation, esp. on specific subjects; a debate (had a discussion about what they should do). 2 an examination by argument, written or spoken. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL discussio -onis (as DISCUSS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Discussion Dis*cus"sion, n. [L. discussio a shaking, examination, discussion: cf. F. discussion.] 1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties. --Macaulay. Discussion of a problem or an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. --Math. Dict.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(discussions) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If there is discussion about something, people talk about it, often in order to reach a decision. There was a lot of discussion about the wording of the report... N-VAR: oft N of/about/on n • If something is under discussion, it is still being talked about and a final decision has not yet been reached. 'The proposals are still under discussion,' she said. PHRASE: v-link PHR 2. A discussion of a subject is a piece of writing or a lecture in which someone talks about it in detail. For a discussion of biology and sexual politics, see chapter 4. N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. A discussion document or paper is one that contains information and usually proposals for people to discuss. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Debating, ventilation, agitation, canvassing. 2. Debate, disputation, controversy.

Moby Thesaurus

airing, analysis, argument, article, audience, bargaining, bargaining session, bull session, buzz session, canvassing, causerie, chat, colloquium, colloquy, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consideration, consultation, convention, conversation, council, council fire, council of war, debate, debating, deliberation, descant, dialectic, dialogue, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, exchange, exchange of views, excursus, exposition, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, feature, first approach, forum, high-level talk, homily, huddle, interchange of views, interview, introductory study, investigation, joint discussion, logical analysis, logical discussion, lucubration, meeting, memoir, monograph, morceau, negotiations, news conference, note, open discussion, open forum, outline, palaver, pandect, panel discussion, paper, paragraph, parley, piece, pourparler, powwow, preliminary study, press conference, prolegomenon, rap, rap session, research paper, review, screed, scrutiny, seance, seminar, session, sitting, sketch, special article, study, summit, summit conference, summitry, survey, symposium, talk, term paper, theme, thesis, town meeting, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, ventilation