language
An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
Interjection
- An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
- Nancy: So... me and Barbara are gonna study at her house tonight. That's cool, right? / Karen: No, not cool. / Nancy: What? Why not? / Karen: Why do you think? Am I speaking Chinese in this house? Until we know Will is...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Vulgar Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Vulgar Latin -icus Vulgar Latin -āticus Vulgar Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *linguāticum Old French languagebor. Middle English langage English language From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
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Noun Entry 2
- 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.
- The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
- Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
- He appears, and gives his advice, accompanied by a stone, which, by being put into the mouth, endows its possessor with the gift of all languages. - 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page...
- The ability to communicate using words.
- the gift of language
- It is wholly out of the power of language to convey any idea of the blissful enjoyment of obtaining water, after an almost total want of it, during eight and forty hours, in the scorching regions of an Arabian desert,...
- Language is the articulation of the limited to express the unlimited; it is the ultimate mystery which is the image of God, for in breaking up infinity to create finite beings, God has found a way to let the limited...
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- legal language; the language of chemistry
- 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...
- And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival. - 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar,...
- The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- Technological advances are notorious for exposing the open-endedness of the language in our laws, even when we thought our definitions were airtight. Lawmakers can’t anticipate everything. Indeed, you could make the...
- A Superior Court judge Tuesday let stand an arbitrator’s ruling that the city was allowed to pass onto its firefighters increased pension and retirement benefit costs due to changes in the state pension system. The city...
- Massachusetts often claims to be a right-to-shelter state because, on the books, it provides homeless families access to emergency shelter, free of cost. This was the purpose for which the right-to-shelter law was...
- The 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
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet. - 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor, →ISBN:
- Birding had become like that for me. It is a language that, once learnt, I have been unable to unlearn. - 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 231:
- A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant...
- Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning. - 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:
- A computer language; a machine language.
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++. - 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages, →ISBN, page 94:
- A manner of expression.
- Their language simple, as their manners meek, […] - 1782, William Cowper, Hope:
- The 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.
- Profanity.
- "Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language." - 1978, James Carroll, Mortal Friends, →ISBN, page 500:
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jargon computer language programming language machine language wording language leid lingo speech tongue
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adult language artificial language auxiliary language bad language body language common language computer computing language constructed language corpus language dead language endangered language engineered language everyday language experimental language extinct language foreign language formal language foul language global language hardware description language indigenous language international language link language
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langue lingua lingua franca linguine linguistics tonguage languoid
Derived
AB language abstract language A language a language is a dialect with an army and navy altlang antilanguage artlang aspect-oriented language aspect-oriented programming language assembler language assembly language Auslan auxlang bilanguage B language cache language model camouflanguage child language C language class-based language classical language clean language colanguage Community language
Noun Entry 3
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- 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. […] The language is adjusted by slightly elevating or...
Origin
Alteration of languet.
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creole pidgin lingua franca link language dead language extinct language heritage language living language endangered language natural language constructed language sign language computer language birthtongue first language L1 mother language mother tongue native language native tongue vernacular vulgate father tongue L2
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Verb
- To communicate by language; to express in language.
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. - 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):