Language vs Thesaural - 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.
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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:
As a noun 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.As a verb language
is to communicate by language; to express in language.As an adjective thesaural is
of, or pertaining to, a thesaurus.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?" ΒΆ "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'.