language
600
4.8
- noun
- /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- Jargon
:
terminología
- The scientific community often develops its own language that involves specific terms and jargon.
- programming language
- assembly language
- dynamic languages
The Homicide Act was in parliamentary language Dog.
- The Homicide Act was in parliamentary language Dog.
- Int is hard coded in the language, but complex is not.
- Pick whatever other moral language that you like.
- So what do you think about another language of JavaScript that's this?
- So Acer's newest marketing language opens up pretty strong.
- The question is, do we know the language that those cells recognize?
- See how different people use the language on the format.
- But just the core language does kind of have an end.
- It's just in case disguised in the language of value, right?
Examples
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Scenarios can also help create a common language between different expert groups.
Academic text (2011) -
The question is, do we know the language that those cells recognize?
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There can be different gifts and different languages, but the teaching remains the same.
Academic text (2011) -
We worked on the problem of formalizing a language for personalization of recommendations.
Academic text (2011) -
In programming, each framework uses its own language to define how developers should write code.
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The marketing team adopted a new language to convey their strategies more effectively.
Synonyms
106
3.0
All the words and phrases used in a language or by a person
58
5.6
Words people use in a subject or job
43
7.2
Words used by a group or job that others cannot understand
36
7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
12
7.0
All the words used by a person, language, or field
10
8.6
A system of names people use in a field like medicine or science
2
8.8
All the words and word forms that make up a language
A special set of words used by people in a particular job or field
Idioms
Compounds
52
2.7
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
51
1.0
A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
32
2.8
A language using hand signs and face movements to communicate, often used by people who are deaf
- Specialized
15
3.9
A set of rules for writing instructions a computer can follow
3
3.9
A language of hand signs and body movements used by deaf people in the United States and parts of Canada
3
2.3
Learning to understand, speak, read, and write a language that is not your first
- Specialized
2
3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
- Specialized
1
4.6
A set of simple tags that tell a computer how to show or arrange text
- Specialized
1
5.5
A type of computer language that is easy for people to read and write
1
9.9
A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia
1
3.4
English that people speak and write in the United States with different words and sounds
- Specialized
1
5.8
A programming language made of 0s and 1s that a computer runs directly
1
4.6
A language first used by ancient Jewish people, now the main language of Israel
- Specialized
1
5.3
The way computers understand and work with human language
- Specialized
1
4.9
A way to write small computer programs that run by themselves to do tasks
1
9.5
A language spoken in parts of Spain and France by the Basque people that is not related to other languages
- Offensive
1
8.1
A group of related languages spoken by native Arctic people like Inuit and Yupik
1
4.6
A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
- Specialized
1
7.2
A language made by people for a special use, like computers or international communication
- Specialized
1
8.1
A computer language that tells a computer's hardware what to do and works for one kind of computer
1
5.1
A language spoken by Kurdish people in parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
1
2.7
The language spoken in North and South Korea and by people from Korea around the world
1
2.3
Work where people help others learn to speak and understand another language
- Literature
1
7.9
Words that make people feel strong emotions to change what they think
1
6.0
A language that comes from a large family that includes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian
1
9.8
A northern European language spoken by the Saami people in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia
1
2.7
A language spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil and in some African and Asian countries
- Specialized
1
6.0
A computer language used to write small programs that do tasks for you
A group of related languages spoken mainly in Bihar, India, and in parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Specialized
A Native American language once spoken by the Biloxi people in the southern United States
- Specialized
A group of related languages that people speak in Assam and nearby areas of northeastern India
A language spoken by the Blackfoot people of the northwest Great Plains in North America
A language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria, especially around Bokkos, Barakin-Ladi and Mangu
A language people speak in northern Nigeria like Hausa, with dialects Bara and Fika
A language spoken in northern Nigeria, closely related to Hausa, with dialects like Bara and Fika
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Language comes from the Latin word lingua, which means 'tongue'. By extension, it also means any special set of words a group uses, so we talk about the 'language' of medicine, law, or science.