language

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim The ability to communicate using words.

   “the gift of language”

3. isim A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

   “legal language; the language of chemistry”

4. isim The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.

   “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 crafted. The language of the law, however, could not be further from the truth.”

5. isim 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”

6. isim 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 language has been detected.”

7. isim 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++.”

8. isim A manner of expression.

   “Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]”

9. isim The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

   “The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.”

10. isim Profanity.

    “"Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language."”

11. fiil To communicate by language; to express in language.

    “Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.”

12. ünlem An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
13. isim 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 depressing it, […]”