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Meaning of "confab" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFAB

confab  [ˈkɒnfæb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFAB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confab is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb confab in English.

WHAT DOES CONFAB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confabulation

In psychology, confabulation is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive. Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false. Although individuals can present blatantly false information, confabulation can also seem to be coherent, internally consistent, and relatively normal. Individuals who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alternations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence. Most known cases of confabulation are symptomatic of brain damage or dementias, such as aneurysm, Alzheimer's disease, or Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome. Two types of confabulation are often distinguished: Provoked confabulations represent a normal response to a faulty memory, are common in both amnesia and dementia, and can become apparent during memory tests. Spontaneous confabulations do not occur in response to a cue and seem to be involuntary.

Definition of confab in the English dictionary

The definition of confab in the dictionary is a conversation or chat. Other definition of confab is to converse.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONFAB

PRESENT

Present
I confab
you confab
he/she/it confabs
we confab
you confab
they confab
Present continuous
I am confabbing
you are confabbing
he/she/it is confabbing
we are confabbing
you are confabbing
they are confabbing
Present perfect
I have confabbed
you have confabbed
he/she/it has confabbed
we have confabbed
you have confabbed
they have confabbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been confabbing
you have been confabbing
he/she/it has been confabbing
we have been confabbing
you have been confabbing
they have been confabbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I confabbed
you confabbed
he/she/it confabbed
we confabbed
you confabbed
they confabbed
Past continuous
I was confabbing
you were confabbing
he/she/it was confabbing
we were confabbing
you were confabbing
they were confabbing
Past perfect
I had confabbed
you had confabbed
he/she/it had confabbed
we had confabbed
you had confabbed
they had confabbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been confabbing
you had been confabbing
he/she/it had been confabbing
we had been confabbing
you had been confabbing
they had been confabbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will confab
you will confab
he/she/it will confab
we will confab
you will confab
they will confab
Future continuous
I will be confabbing
you will be confabbing
he/she/it will be confabbing
we will be confabbing
you will be confabbing
they will be confabbing
Future perfect
I will have confabbed
you will have confabbed
he/she/it will have confabbed
we will have confabbed
you will have confabbed
they will have confabbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been confabbing
you will have been confabbing
he/she/it will have been confabbing
we will have been confabbing
you will have been confabbing
they will have been confabbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would confab
you would confab
he/she/it would confab
we would confab
you would confab
they would confab
Conditional continuous
I would be confabbing
you would be confabbing
he/she/it would be confabbing
we would be confabbing
you would be confabbing
they would be confabbing
Conditional perfect
I would have confab
you would have confab
he/she/it would have confab
we would have confab
you would have confab
they would have confab
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been confabbing
you would have been confabbing
he/she/it would have been confabbing
we would have been confabbing
you would have been confabbing
they would have been confabbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you confab
we let´s confab
you confab
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to confab
Past participle
confabbed
Present Participle
confabbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFAB


fab
fæb
prefab
ˈpriːˌfæb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFAB

conf
confabbed
confabbing
confabular
confabulate
confabulation
confabulator
confabulatory
confarreate
confarreation
confect
confection
confectionaries
confectionary
confectioner
confectioner´s
confectioner´s shop
confectioneries
confectioners´ sugar
confectionery

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFAB

Arab
Bab
cab
crab
dab
gab
grab
hijab
jab
jilbab
kab
kebab
lab
nab
Punjab
rehab
sab
slab
stab
tab

Synonyms and antonyms of confab in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFAB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confab» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confab

Translation of «confab» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFAB

Find out the translation of confab to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confab from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confab» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

confab
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confab
570 millions of speakers

English

confab
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

confab
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

CONFAB
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ConFab
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confab
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

confab
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conciliabule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Confab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

keine Besprechung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

商談会
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

좌담회
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Confab
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

confab
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

confab
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Confab
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hoşbeş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confab
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

confab
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ConFab
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

NAB
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουβεντιάζω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

confab
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

confab
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

confab
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confab

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFAB»

The term «confab» is regularly used and occupies the 69.019 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFAB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confab» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confab» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confab

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFAB»

Discover the use of confab in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confab and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advanced Packaging
2006 THE CONFAB... A SECOND GREAT YEAR! 2007 ONE OF THE BEST THIRD-YEAR CONFERENCES... PENNWELL'S WINNING FORMULA! THE CONFERENCE: Managing the New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing Hear ...
2
Texas Monthly
Confab. History doesn't record whether Sam Houston ever felt the need to adorn the early Texas Republic with an official State Animal — or if he did, whether the lowly armadillo figured in his musings. But chroniclers of the 1970's will surely ...
3
Large diameter carbon steel welded pipes from Brazil: ...
U.S. importers The major importer of large-diameter carbon steel welded pipes from Brazil is Confab Industrial Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Confab Industrial S.A. Confab Industrial Corp, which acts as sales agent on non-project sales ...
United States International Trade Commission, 1984
4
The rag-bag: a collection of ephemera
a collection of ephemera Nathaniel Parker Willis. Editorial Confabs ; Confab I. Confab H. Confab HI. Confab IV. . Confab V. Confab VI. Confab VIL Confab VIII. . Confab IX. Confab X. Confab XI. THE RAG-BAG. THE NEWSPAPEK. As we feel ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1855
5
CleanRooms
Build alliances with new and current business partners. THE NETWORKING: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Join your semiconductor manufacturing peers, suppliers and industry thought leaders. 2005 THE CONFAB IS A HIT! 2006 THE CONFAB.
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CleanRooms
THE CONFAB IS A HIT! 2006 THE CONFAB... A SECOND GREAT YEAR! 2007 ONE OF THE BEST THIRD-YEAR CONFERENCES... PENNWELL'S WINNING FORMULA! THE CONFERENCE: Managing the New Economics of Semiconductor ...
7
Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence
However, the confab - described by the head of state as 'the only viable option if we are to avoid the path of chaos and anarchy' - remained the fulcrum of the planned transition. The process of convening the confab involved setting up a ...
Eghosa E. Osaghae, 1998
8
Context Management for Distributed and Dynamic Context-Aware ...
Confab. Confab [13, 14] (Context Fabric) is a distributed middleware that is focused at providing context information restricted to user privacy requirements. Confab maintains context information in distributed tuple-spaces called infospaces.
Ricardo Couto Antunes da Rocha, Markus Endler, 2012
9
CMJ New Music Report
explain their ideas in one conference after the other. . . But to us it all avoids the real issue. If you want to sell more music, if you want to put value back into our product, lower the price! During this whole confab, not one label said anything ...
10
Billboard
Thanks to the ongoing, strong support of the U.S. Latin music industry, Billboard's annual International Latin Music Conference has evolved into a vital industry confab that continues to grow each year. And with the 1 1th installment of the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFAB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confab is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Big climate change confab kicks off today
TORONTO – A major climate-change conference gets underway in Toronto today with hundreds of invitation-only delegates in attendance. «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
2
DTI MisOcc conducts business permit licensing system confab in …
ALORAN, Misamis Occidental, July 7 (PIA) – An orientation/briefing to strengthen the Business Permit Licensing System (BPLS) of the ... «Philippine Information Agency, Jul 15»
3
LIBERIA: Three MRU Leaders Slated For Post-Ebola Recovery Int'l …
LIBERIA: Three MRU Leaders Slated For Post-Ebola Recovery Int'l Confab. Error message. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ... «Global News Network, Jul 15»
4
Largest tech startup confab kicks off in Manila
Largest tech startup confab kicks off in Manila. SHARES: VIEW COMMENTS. By: Aries Joseph Hegina · @inquirerdotnet · INQUIRER.net. «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
5
UN Hosts Ebola Recovery Confab Next Week
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have undertaken a remarkable effort to defeat the devastating Ebola outbreak. Thanks to those efforts and ... «Awareness Times, Jul 15»
6
Ex-GSA official caught in M Resort confab sent to prison
A federal grand jury has indicted Jeffrey Neely who formerly headed the federal General Services Administration unit that came under fire for ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
7
Philly NAACP confab lands Obama
The July 14 address will mark just the second time in his presidency that Obama will address a national NAACP confab - underscoring the way ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
8
Change Will Be a Mirage If You Don'T Implement Confab Reports …
The implementation of recommendations of the 2014 National Conference has been identified as panacea to solving the myriads of problems ... «Daily Times Nigeria, Jul 15»
9
Lawmaker Wants Confab Report Implemented
Osun State House of Assembly member representing Obokun constituency, Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has advocated a systemic ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jun 15»
10
Sons of Italy Members Attend Confab
Recently attending a statewide Italian convention at Cherry Valley Lodge were front row: Lillian Siebieda, Janice Whipkey, Tiberio Ciancone, ... «Martins Ferry Times Leader, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
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