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Langue vs Languet - What's the difference?

langue | languet |

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

English

Noun

(Langue and parole) (-)
  • (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.

    • Antonyms

    * (language in use): parole

    Anagrams

    * ----

    languet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • (archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
  • (zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

    • Synonyms

    * (flat plate in an organ) language, languid ----