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Linguistic vs Orally - What's the difference?

linguistic | orally |

As an adjective linguistic

is linguistic.

As an adverb orally is

by mouth.

linguistic

English

Adjective

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  • Of or relating to language.
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  • Of or relating to linguistics.
  • *
  • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
  • * 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:
  • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic

    orally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • By mouth.
  • This medicine is taken orally . Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
  • Spoken as opposed to written.
  • I took the make up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.