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  LANGUAGE, n.  The music with which we charm the serpents guarding
  another's treasure.
  
  

  language
       
          1.  programming language.
       
          2.  natural language.
       
          (1998-09-07)
       
       

  Language \Lan"guage\, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua
     the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See
     Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;
        specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the
        voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the
        organs of the throat and mouth.
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     Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which
           usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
           or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
           the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
           person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
           primary sense of language, the use of which is to
           communicate the thoughts of one person to another
           through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
           represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
           characters, which form words.
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     2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other
        instrumentality.
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     3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas,
        peculiar to a particular nation.
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     4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
        individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
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              Others for language all their care express. --Pope.
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     5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man
        express their feelings or their wants.
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     6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
        ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
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              There was . . . language in their very gesture.
                                                    --Shak.
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     7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
        department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
        language of chemistry or theology.
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     8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
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              All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
              down and worshiped the golden image.  --Dan. iii. 7.
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     9. Any system of symbols created for the purpose of
        communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between
        sentient agents.
        [PJC]
  
     10. Specifically: (computers) Any set of symbols and the
         rules for combining them which are used to specify to a
         computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to
         as a computer lanugage or programming language; as,
         JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has
         achieved popularity very rapidly.
         [PJC]
  
     Note: Computer languages are classed a low-level if each
           instruction specifies only one operation of the
           computer, or high-level if each instruction may specify
           a complex combination of operations. Machine language
           and assembly language are low-level computer
           languages. FORTRAN, COBOL and C are high-level
           computer languages. Other computer languages, such as
           JAVA, allow even more complex combinations of low-level
           operations to be performed with a single command. Many
           programs, such as databases, are supplied with special
           languages adapted to manipulate the objects of concern
           for that specific program. These are also high-level
           languages.
           [PJC]
  
     Language master, a teacher of languages. [Obs.]
  
     Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction;
          discourse; conversation; talk.
  
     Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect.
            Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
            use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
            language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
            Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken
            language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
            forms of construction peculiar to a particular
            language; dialects are varieties of expression which
            spring up in different parts of a country among people
            speaking substantially the same language.
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  Language \Lan"guage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Languaged; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Languaging.]
     To communicate by language; to express in language.
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           Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that
           they have a double sense.                --Fuller.
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  Language \Lan"guage\, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua
     the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See
     Tongue, cf. Lingual.]
     1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;
        specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the
        voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the
        organs of the throat and mouth.
  
     Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which
           usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
           or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
           the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
           person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
           primary sense of language, the use of which is to
           communicate the thoughts of one person to another
           through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
           represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
           characters, which form words.
  
     2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other
        instrumentality.
  
     3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas,
        peculiar to a particular nation.
  
     4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
        individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
  
              Others for language all their care express. --Pope.
  
     5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man
        express their feelings or their wants.
  
     6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
        ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
  
              There was . . . language in their very gesture.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
        department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
        language of chemistry or theology.
  
     8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
  
              All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
              down and worshiped the golden image.  --Dan. iii. 7.
  
     Language master, a teacher of languages. [Obs.]
  
     Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction;
          discourse; conversation; talk.
  
     Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect.
            Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
            use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
            language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
            Anglo-Saxon tern for language, esp. for spoken
            language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
            forms of construction peculiar to a particular
            language; dialects are varieties if expression which
            spring up in different parts of a country among people
            speaking substantially the same language.

  Language \Lan"guage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Languaged; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Languaging.]
     To communicate by language; to express in language.
  
           Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that
           they have a double sense.                --Fuller.

  language
       n 1: a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or
            conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages";
            "the language introduced is standard throughout the
            text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed
            depends on the language in which it is written" [syn: linguistic
            communication]
       2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was
          garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the
          spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech
          communication, spoken communication, spoken language,
           voice communication, oral communication]
       3: a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal
          terminology"; "the language of sociology" [syn: terminology,
           nomenclature]
       4: the cognitive processes involved in producing and
          understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have
          the language to express his feelings" [syn: linguistic
          process]
       5: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;
          "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
          [syn: speech]
       6: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his
          compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote
          both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
          [syn: lyric, words]

  language
     Αγγλικά n.
     η γλώσσα ως κώδικας επικοινωνία

  language
     interj.
     (n-g: An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.)
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) 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.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
     3 (lb en uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular
  community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
     4 (lb en countable uncountable figurative) The expression of thought
  (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which
  communicates something, as language does.
     vb.
     (lb en rare now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language;
  to express in language.
     n.
     A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
     Middle English n.
     (alternative form of enm langage)
     Old French n.
     language#English (style of communicating)

  language
     interj.
     (n-g: An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.)
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) 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.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
     3 (lb en uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular
  community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
     4 (lb en countable uncountable figurative) The expression of thought
  (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which
  communicates something, as language does.
     vb.
     (lb en rare now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language;
  to express in language.
     n.
     A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

  language
     interj.
     (n-g: An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.)
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) 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.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
     3 (lb en uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular
  community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
     4 (lb en countable uncountable figurative) The expression of thought
  (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which
  communicates something, as language does.
     vb.
     (lb en rare now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language;
  to express in language.
     n.
     A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
     Middle English n.
     (alternative form of enm langage)
     Old French n.
     language#English (style of communicating)

  language
     interj.
     (n-g: An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.)
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) 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.
     2 (lb en uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
     3 (lb en uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular
  community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
     4 (lb en countable uncountable figurative) The expression of thought
  (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which
  communicates something, as language does.
     vb.
     (lb en rare now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language;
  to express in language.
     n.
     A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
     Middle English n.
     (alternative form of enm langage)
     Old French n.
     language#English (style of communicating)

  language
     Englanti n.
     kieli

  language
     Engelska n.
     språk

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  taal

  Language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  اللغة

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  ези́к, език 2.
  body of words used as a form of communication
   3.
  computer language
   4.
  nonverbal communication
   5.
  particular words used
   6.
  the ability to communicate using words
   7.
  vocabulary of a particular field

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  řeč

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  jazykový

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  jazyk

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  jazykový

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  iaith 

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  sprog

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ (lang. /lˈaŋ/)
  Sprache  [ling.] Spr.,  /ˌɛspˌiːˈɑː/
        "the Finno-Ugric languages"  - die finno-ugrischen Sprachen, die ugro-finnischen Sprachen
        "the Finno-Ugrian languages"  - die finno-ugrischen Sprachen, die ugro-finnischen Sprachen
        "the Germanic languages"  - die germanischen Sprachen
        "the Indo-European languages"  - die indoeuropäischen Sprachen, die indogermanischen Sprachen
        "the Indo-Germanic languages"  - die indoeuropäischen Sprachen, die indogermanischen Sprachen
        "the Romance languages"  - die romanischen Sprachen
        "the Slavic languages"  - die slawischen Sprachen
        "a living language"  - eine lebende Sprache
        "in spoken language"  - in der gesprochenen Sprache
        "have a good spoken and written command of a language"  - eine Sprache in Wort und Schrift beherrschen
        "The course language is German."  - Die Kurssprache ist Deutsch.
        "The course is held in German language."  - Die Kurssprache ist Deutsch.
   see: languages, academic language, erudite language, individual languages, main language, primary language, dominant language, plain language
  

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  
  γλώσσα

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  1. kieli, puhe 2.
  body of words used as a form of communication
   3.
  nonverbal communication
   4.
  the ability to communicate using words
  2. kieli, ohjelmointikieli
  computer language
  3. kieli, kielenkäyttö, sanat
  particular words used
  4. kieli, sanasto
  vocabulary of a particular field

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  langue

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  teanga

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  1. भाषा
        "Hindi is the national language of our country."
        "His body language shows that he is tired."
  2. बोलने की शैली
        "The people living nearby have a very bad language."
  3. बोली
        "Only advocates can understand the language of courtroom."

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  govor, jezik, jezika, jeziku, jezične, jezičnu

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  nyelv

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  bahasa 2.
  body of words used as a form of communication
   3.
  computer language
   4.
  the ability to communicate using words
   5.
  nonverbal communication
   6.
  particular words used
   7.
  vocabulary of a particular field

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  lingua

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  1. 言語, 言葉 2.
  body of words used as a form of communication
   3.
  nonverbal communication
  2. 言語, 語
  computer language
  3. 言い回し, 言語
  particular words used
  4. 言語
  the ability to communicate using words
  5. 用語, 言語
  vocabulary of a particular field

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  lingua

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  1. kalba
  2. kalbos sistema

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  taal

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  1. språk, talemål 2.
  body of words used as a form of communication
   3.
  computer language
   4.
  the ability to communicate using words
  2. språk 2.
  nonverbal communication
   3.
  particular words used
   4.
  vocabulary of a particular field

  language /ˈlæŋgwɪʤ/ 
    język

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  idioma, língua, linguagem

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  1. limbă
  2. limbaj

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  язык

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  lengua

  language /læŋgwidʒ/
  језик

  language //ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ// /[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]/ 
  1. språk, tungomål
  body of words used as a form of communication
  2. språk, datorspråk
  computer language
  3. språk, mål 2.
  particular words used
   3.
  vocabulary of a particular field
   4.
  nonverbal communication
  4. tal, språk
  the ability to communicate using words

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/ 
  
  lugha

  language /lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ/
  1. dil, lisan
  2. konuşma kabiliyeti
  3. herhangi bir ifade tarzı
  4. bir kabileye veya bir yere mahsus lehçe
  5. (bilgisayar) lisanı. finger language sağırların kullandığı parmak işaretleri ile konuşulan dil. strong language küfür, ağır söz, sert dil. language arts okuma, edebiyat, kompozisyon yazma gibi bir çocuğun ana diline hâkimiyetini sağlayacak dersler. language laboratory dil laboratuvarı.

  
/ˈɫæŋɡwədʒ/, /ˈɫæŋɡwɪdʒ/

  482 Moby Thesaurus words for "language":
     Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro-Asiatic, Ainu, Akan,
     Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic,
     Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic,
     Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Arulo, Aryan,
     Assamese, Athapaskan, Austral, Austronesian, Avestan, Aymara,
     Aztec, Balinese, Baluchi, Bashkir, Basque, Batak, Bellacoola,
     Bengali, Berber, Bhili, Bihari, Bikol, Bini, Blackfoot,
     Blaia Zimondal, Brahui, Brythonic, Buginese, Burmese, Burushaski,
     Buryat, Bushman, Byelorussian, Cantonese, Carolinian, Caspian,
     Castilian, Catalan, Caucasian, Chad, Cham, Cheremis, Cherokee,
     Chibcha, Chibchan, Chin, Chinese, Chinookan, Chuvash, Coptic,
     Cornish, Cuman, Czech, Dafla, Dalmatian, Danish, Dinka, Dravidian,
     Dutch, Dyak, Edo, Efatese, Egyptian, Elamitic, English, Eskimo,
     Eskimo-Aleut, Esperantido, Esperanto, Estonian, Ethiopic, Europan,
     Euskarian, Ewe, Faeroese, Faliscan, Fijian, Finnic, Finnish,
     Flemish, Fox, French, Frisian, Fula, Fulani, Gadaba, Gaelic,
     Galcha, Galla, Garo, Gaulish, Geez, Georgian, German, Germanic,
     Gold, Goldi, Gondi, Gothic, Greek, Guanche, Guarani, Gur, Gypsy,
     Haida, Haitian Creole, Hamito-Semitic, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew,
     Hellenic, Hindustani, Hittite, Ho, Hokaltecan, Hokan-Siouan, Hopi,
     Hottentot, Iban, Ibanag, Ibo, Icelandic, Idiom Neutral, Igorot,
     Illyrian, Indic, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Chinese, Indo-European,
     Indo-Hittite, Interlingua, Irish, Iroquoian, Italian, Italic,
     Ivatan, Kachin, Kafiri, Kalmuck, Kamasin, Kamchadal, Kanarese,
     Kara-Kalpak, Karamojong, Karankawa, Karelian, Kashmiri, Kashubian,
     Kechumaran, Keres, Ket, Khamti, Kharia, Khasi, Khmer, Khoisan,
     Khondi, Khosa, Khowar, Kickapoo, Kiowa Apache, Kirghiz, Kiriwina,
     Kitunahan, Kodagu, Kohistani, Koiari, Kolami, Koluschan, Komi,
     Konkani, Korean, Korwa, Koryak, Kui, Kuki, Kuki-Chin, Kumyk,
     Kunama, Kurdish, Kurukh, Kutchin, Kutenai, Kwa, Ladino, Lahnda,
     Lampong, Lamut, Lao, Lapp, Latin, Latinesce, Latvian, Lettish,
     Libyan, Ligurian, Limbu, Lingualumina, Lingvo Kosmopolita,
     Lithuanian, Livonian, Low German, Luorawetlan, Lusatian, Luwian,
     Lycian, Lydian, Macedonian, Madurese, Magyar, Malagasy, Malay,
     Malayalam, Malayo-Polynesian, Maltese, Manchu, Mandarin, Mande,
     Mandingo, Mangarevan, Manobo, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Maya, Mayan,
     Meithei, Mende, Messapian, Micronesian, Middle English,
     Middle Greek, Middle High German, Middle Persian, Mishmi,
     Mishongnovi, Misima, Miskito, Mon, Monario, Mongolian, Mongolic,
     Mordvin, Mordvinian, Moro, Mru, Munda, Muong, Mura, Muran, Murmi,
     Muskogean, Muskogee, Na-dene, Naga, Nahuatlan, Nepali, Newari,
     Ngala, Ngbaka, Niasese, Nicobarese, Niuean, Nogai, Nootka,
     Norwegian, Nov-Esperanto, Nov-Latin, Novial, Occidental, Optez,
     Oraon, Oriya, Oscan, Osco-Umbrian, Osmanli, Ossetic, Ostyak,
     Otomanguean, Pahlavi, Palaic, Palau, Palaung, Paleo-Asiatic, Pali,
     Pampango, Pangasinan, Papuan, Pashto, Pasigraphy, Paya, Penutian,
     Permian, Persian, Phrygian, Piman, Plattdeutsch, Polabian, Polish,
     Polynesian, Portuguese, Prakrit, Punic, Punjabi, Quechua, Quechuan,
     Ritwan, Ro, Romaic, Romanal, Romance, Romanic, Romansh, Romany,
     Russian, Ruthenian, Sabellian, Saharan, Sakai, Salish, Samoan,
     Samoyed, Samoyedic, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Sasak, Scandinavian,
     Selung, Semitic, Serbo-Croatian, Shan, Shilha, Shluh, Shoshonean,
     Siamese, Sinhalese, Sino-Tibetan, Siouan, Skittagetan, Slavic,
     Slavonic, Slovak, Slovene, Slovenian, Sogdian, Sorbian, Soyot,
     Spanish, Sudanic, Sumerian, Susian, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac,
     Syryenian, Tagalog, Tagula, Tahitian, Takelma, Takilman, Tamashek,
     Tamaulipec, Tanoan, Taracahitian, Tarascan, Tavgi, Taw-Sug,
     Thraco-Phrygian, Tibeto-Burman, Tigre, Tipura, Tocharian, Toda,
     Tsimshian, Tuareg, Tulu, Tungus, Tungusic, Tupi-Guaranian,
     Turanian, Turkic, Turkish, Turko-Tartar, Turkoman, Ugric, Uighur,
     Umbrian, Ural-Altaic, Uralian, Urdu, Uto-Aztecan, Uzbek,
     Vietnamese, Visayan, Vote, Votyak, Wa, Welsh, White Russian, Xhosa,
     Yakut, Yeniseian, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yukaghir, Yukian, Yurak, Zenaga,
     Zulu, agglutinative, analytic, argot, cant, choice of words,
     communication, composition, dialect, diction, dictionary,
     expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, incorporative,
     inflectional, interaction, intercourse, isolating, jargon,
     language, lexicon, lingo, locution, monosyllabic, palaver,
     parlance, patois, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, polysynthetic,
     polytonic, rhetoric, slang, speech, style, synthetic, talk,
     terminology, tongue, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage,
     vernacular, vocabulary, wordage, wording, words
  
  

  n. 语言,文字,措辞;

     n. U语言;C一个国家或种族的语言;U使用语言的能力