language English
Etymology 1
(etyl) language, from (etyl) language, from .
Noun
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(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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* 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:
- 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.
* {{quote-book, page=50, year=1900, author=(w)
, title= The History of the Caliph Vathek
, passage=No language could express his rage and despair.}}
* 2000 , Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos (ISBN 0816519595), page 113:
- 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 .
(lb) The ability to communicate using words.
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(lb) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
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- 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.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
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* 2001 , Eugene C. Kennedy, ?Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor (ISBN 0824519132):
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
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:
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages' to distinguish them from pointers in ' languages like C and C++.
(lb) Manner of expression.
* (rfdate) Cowper:
- Their language simple, as their manners meek,
(lb) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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(lb) Profanity.
*{{quote-book, page=500, year=1978, author=James Carroll
, title= 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, terminology
Derived 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 language
Related terms
* langue
* lingual
* linguine
* linguistics
* tonguage
Verb
To communicate by language; to express in language.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
See also
* lexis, term, word
* bilingual
* linguistics
* multilingual
* trilingual
Etymology 2
Alteration of (m).
Noun
( en noun)
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
* 1896 , William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect , page 79:
- 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'.
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Adjective
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From or in a nearby location.
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* , chapter=22
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
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Descended from an indigenous population.
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Synonyms
* (medicine) topical
Antonyms
* global
Noun
( en noun)
A person who lives nearby.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Synonyms
* (rail transport) stopper
Antonyms
* (rail transport) fast, express
Derived terms
* localism
* locally
Related terms
* locus
* locality
* localization
* localize
* locate
* location
* locative
* locator
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