Langue vs Languet - What's the difference?
langue | languet |
(linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
# A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
# A piece of metal on a sword-hilt which overhangs the scabbard.
# A flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ.
(archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
(zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.
As nouns the difference between langue and languet
is that langue is language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language while languet is a tongue-shaped implement, specifically.langue
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(Langue and parole) (-)Antonyms
* (language in use): paroleAnagrams
* ----languet
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(en noun)- 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
- If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here.
