Language vs Conversation - What's the difference?
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This person is saying "hello" in American sign language . }} (wikipedia language) (lb) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
* 1867', ''Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe'', quoted in '''1983 in ''History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 (ISBN 0913580856), page 240:
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, title= * 2000 , Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos (ISBN 0816519595), page 113:
(lb) The ability to communicate using words.
(lb) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
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The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
* 2001 , Eugene C. Kennedy, ?Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor (ISBN 0824519132):
A body of sounds, signs and signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
* 2015 , Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages (ISBN 3319133144), page 94:
(lb) Manner of expression.
* (rfdate) Cowper:
(lb) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
(lb) Profanity.
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, title= To communicate by language; to express in language.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
* 1896 , William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect , page 79:
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
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, passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
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, title= (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XI:
(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
(computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
(nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
* 1983 , James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
* 1989 , Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia
* 2002 , Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays
Language is a synonym of conversation.
As nouns the difference between language and conversation
is that language is (lb) a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication or language can be a languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ while conversation is conversation.As a verb language
is to communicate by language; to express in language.language
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) language, from (etyl) language, from .Noun
{{examples-right, The English Wiktionary uses the English language' to define words from all of the world's ' languages .This person is saying "hello" in American sign language . }} (wikipedia language)
- Hence the natural language' of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a ' language , capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
The History of the Caliph Vathek, passage=No language could express his rage and despair.}}
- Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language .
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language , he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages' to distinguish them from pointers in ' languages like C and C++.
- Their language simple, as their manners meek,
Mortal Friends, isbn=0440157897 , passage="Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language ."}}
Synonyms
* (form of communication) tongue, speech (spoken language) * (vocabulary of a particular field) lingo (colloquial), jargon, terminology, phraseology, parlance * (computer language) computer language, programming language, machine language * (particular words used) phrasing, wording, terminologyDerived terms
* artificial language * auxiliary language * bad language * body language * computing language * constructed language * endangered language * extinct language * foreign language * formal language * foul language * international language * language barrier * language code * language cop * language death * language extinction * language family * language lab, language laboratory * language model * language of flowers * language planning * language police * language pollution * language processing * language school * language shift * language technology * language transfer * languaging * machine language * mathematical language * mind one's language * natural language * pattern language * programming language * private language * secular language * sign language * speak someone's language * standard language * vehicular language * vernacular languageVerb
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
See also
* lexis, term, word * bilingual * linguistics * multilingual * trilingualEtymology 2
Alteration of (m).Noun
(en noun)- A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language'.
Statistics
* ----conversation
English
(wikipedia conversation)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation , grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
- Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.
- There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation , and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
- (Ariadne)quitted her Lover (Theseus), for the tumultuous Conversation of (Bacchus).
- The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.
Synonyms
* (expression and exchange of ideas through talking) banter, chat, chinwag, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, powwow, table talkDerived terms
* conversational * conversation pieceUsage notes
* To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence. * To have' a conversation, and to ' hold a conversation, both mean to converse. * SeeVerb
(en verb)- Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
- ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
- After all this conversationing , Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.
