language
EN[ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ] [ˈleɪŋɡwɪdʒ]US
Flangue WLangage
- Le langage est la capacité d'exprimer une pensée et de communiquer au moyen d'un système de signes (vocaux, gestuel, graphiques, tactiles, olfactifs, etc.) doté d'une sémantique, et le plus souvent d'une syntaxe (mais ce n'est pas systématique).
FR language
- NomPLlanguagesSUF-age
- (countable) 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 language and the German language are related.
- Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- the gift of language
- (uncountable) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
- legal language; the language of chemistry
- (countable, uncountable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
- body language; the language of the eyes
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) Manner of expression.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable) Profanity.
- "Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language."
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (countable) 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.
- VerbeSGlanguagesPRlanguagingPT, PPlanguaged
- (rare, now nonstandard) To communicate by language; to express in language.
- (rare, now nonstandard) To communicate by language; to express in language.
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- Most languages have names for the colours black, white, red, and green.
- ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- Utilisé au début de la phrase
- Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".
- Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- The most well-documented case of xenoglossy, however, concerned Swiss Medium Hélène Smith (1861-1929), who falsely claimed to speak the Martian language.
- Idioms are a common stumbling block for learners of a language.
- We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of language in English Dictionary
- Partie du discours Hiérarchie
- Noms
- Noms Dénombrable
- Singularia tantum
- Noms Indénombrable
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- Noms Dénombrable
- Verbes
- Noms
Source: Wiktionnaire