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Language

Noun

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1.NounA body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
"The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.; Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language."
2.NounThe ability to communicate using words.
"the gift of language"
3.NounA sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
"legal language;   the language of chemistry"
4.NounThe specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
5.NounThe expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
"body language;   the language of the eyes"
6.NounA body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
7.NounA computer language; a machine language.
8.NounA manner of expression.
9.NounThe particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
"The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.; The language he used to talk to me was obscene."
10.NounProfanity.
11.VerbTo communicate by language; to express in language.
12.InterjectionAn admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
13.NounA languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
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