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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}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Language — Lan guage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Languaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Languaging}.] To communicate by language; to express in language. [1913 Webster] Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

language — I noun communication, composition, dialect, expression, faculty of speech, folk speech, form of expression, formulation, idiom, jargon, lingua, linguistics, means of communication, oral, oratio, parlance, phrasing, phraseology, rhetoric, sermo,… …   Law dictionary

language — noun 1) язык; речь finger language 2) coll. брань (тж. badlanguage) I won t have any language here прошу не выражаться 3) стиль; языкписателя the language of Shakespeare язык Шекспира Syn: see wording …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Language — This article is about the properties of language in general. For other uses, see Language (disambiguation). Cuneiform is one of the first known forms of written language, but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of… …   Wikipedia

language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …   Universalium

language — язык absolute language algorithmical language algorithmic language applicative language artificial language assembler language block structured language Boolean algebra based language Boolean based language command language compilative language… …   Англо-русский словарь технических терминов

language — ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ сущ. язык а) (как способ и средство общения) речь to butcher, murder a language ≈ искажать язык to enrich a language ≈ обогащать язык to learn, master a language ≈ …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

LANGUAGE —    The Etruscan language does not survive as a literary record and has to be largely reconstructed from funerary inscriptions and some words recorded by later authors. The surviving evidence of the Etruscan language comes from a restricted… …   Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

language — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French langage, from lange, langue tongue, language, from Latin lingua more at tongue Date: 14th century 1. a. the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary