language
384
4.8
- noun
- /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- Jargon
- The scientific community often develops its own language that involves specific terms and jargon.
- programming language
- assembly language
- dynamic languages
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- 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.
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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.
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We worked on the problem of formalizing a language for personalization of recommendations.
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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
92
3.0
All the words and phrases used in a language or by a person
59
5.6
Words people use in a subject or job
39
7.2
Words used by a group or job that others cannot understand
37
7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
16
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
1
8.8
All the words and word forms that make up a language
1
8.6
A special set of words used by people in a particular job or field
Idioms
Compounds
100
1.0
A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
78
2.7
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
36
2.8
A language using hand signs and face movements to communicate, often used by people who are deaf
19
9.9
A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia
- Specialized
15
3.9
A set of rules for writing instructions a computer can follow
- Specialized
5
3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
5
2.3
Learning to understand, speak, read, and write a language that is not your first
4
3.4
English that people speak and write in the United States with different words and sounds
3
3.9
A language of hand signs and body movements used by deaf people in the United States and parts of Canada
- Specialized
3
4.9
A way to write small computer programs that run by themselves to do tasks
2
4.6
A language first used by ancient Jewish people, now the main language of Israel
- Specialized
2
4.6
A set of simple tags that tell a computer how to show or arrange text
- Archaic
2
5.8
A language spoken by the native people of North, Central, or South America
- Specialized
2
5.5
A type of computer language that is easy for people to read and write
- Specialized
1
5.8
A programming language made of 0s and 1s that a computer runs directly
1
2.7
A language spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil and in some African and Asian countries
1
2.7
The language spoken in North and South Korea and by people from Korea around the world
- Specialized
1
5.3
The way computers understand and work with human language
1
9.2
A language from the Middle East once spoken by ancient Arameans and still used by some people
1
6.0
A language that comes from a large family that includes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian
1
2.3
Work where people help others learn to speak and understand another language
- 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
9.5
A language spoken in parts of Spain and France by the Basque people that is not related to other languages
1
3.0
The official national language of the Philippines based on Tagalog and using words from other local languages
1
9.9
A language used in Coptic church services in Egypt and Ethiopia, written with Greek letters
- Literature
1
7.9
Words that make people feel strong emotions to change what they think
- Specialized
1
8.1
A language that a translator or program creates from another language
- Specialized
1
6.5
A part of the left side of the brain that helps people speak and understand words
- Specialized
1
7.2
A language made by people for a special use, like computers or international communication
- Specialized
1
8.4
A language like Turkish or Uzbek that people speak in Central Asia and nearby regions
1
4.6
A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
1
4.7
A language similar to Spanish and French spoken in Catalonia, Andorra, and nearby parts of Spain, France, and Italy
- Texting
1
4.1
A set of simple rules that tell a browser how to show web pages
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.