late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage "speech, words, oratory; a tribe, people, nation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from [..]

/ˈlæŋgwɪʤ/ noun plural languages language /ˈlæŋgwɪʤ/ noun plural languages Learner's definition of LANGUAGE 1  a  [noncount] : the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts [..]

Stories “Above the Line” (May 2013 Friend) Robert makes the choice not to use bad language.“Aren’t You a Mormon?” (April 2004 Liahona and Friend) Lillie swears to fit in, but her bad language doesn’t [..]

Structured system of signs, sounds, gestures, and marks used and understood to express ideas and feelings among people within a community, nation, geographic area, or cultural tradition. [SB] Laissez- [..]

set of sounds, gestures, or symbols that allows people to communicate.

A particular system of signs used by members of a group to communicate with each other. These signs can be verbal sounds, sign language gestures, or written markings like letters.

A systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, or gestures. [D00900]

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout [..]

See: programming language.

A set of characters, conventions, and rules that is used for conveying information.

A system of meaning, in spoken, written, visual and physical modes, for communicating ideas, thoughts and feelings.

n. 1. the speech, vocabulary, and grammatical system shared by people of the same nation, region, community, or cultural tradition, as Swedish, Basque, or Cajun. 2. oral communication through speech w [..]

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is used for writing computer programs. Luckily, you can use a computer without knowing anything about computer langauges.

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Symbols and grammatical rules that provide for the communication of complex ideas.

A system for communicating. Written languages use symbols (that is, characters) to build words. The entire set of words is the language's vocabulary. The ways in which the words can be meaningful [..]

Any comparable non-verbal means of communication such as sign or the languages used in the computer programming, the communicative system used by a particular speech community

The vocabulary, pronunciation, and sequencing of words that are understood by a certain group of people.

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The system of conventional sounds and symbols developed over time by a specific human population as a means of expressing and exchanging thoughts, feelings, information, and knowledge. A language cons [..]

This is a good one; we all use some form of language everyday, but how do you define it? Technically, we can say that language is a formal system of communication which involves the combination of wor [..]

A programming language using function block diagrams for representing the Application Program for a Programmable Electroinc System (PES).

A programming language based upon graphical representation.

A Textual programming language using Instructions for representing the Application Program for Programmable Electroinc System (PES).

A programming language using Ladder Diagrams for representing the Application Program for Programmable Electroinc System (PES).

A textual programming language using assignment, sub-program control, selection and instruction Statements to represent the Application Program for a Programmable Electroinc System (PES).

A system consisting of a well-defined, usually finite, set of characters; rules for combining characters with one another to form works or other expressions; a specific assignment of meanings to some [..]

A set of protocols and syntax conditions that allow programming within a group on known conditions. Short (slang) for programming languages for more information.

The language of the dataset.

The most sophisticated form of communication, in which a set of arbitrary sounds, tokens, or symbols can be arranged according to a grammar in order to convey an almost limitless variety of concepts.

The different words and phrases that a person speaks depending on the part of the world that they are from. The best online reservation software offers different language options.

a system of arbitrary symbols; the rules used to manipulate those symbols; a natural (or ordinary) language is one that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication (in co [..]

Language, as a term in general usage, refers to the current stock of words that make up the vocabulary of a language, or to language as an expressive medium that includes its grammatical form, or to l [..]

Spoken or written symbols combined into a system and governed by rules.

A symbolic form of communication-perhaps the most important feature of a culture.

A formal language specifies a way of constructing messages. A language is built from an alphabet of allowed symbols, which can be arranged according to rules, which define the syntax of the language. [..]

Language planning is becoming more and more essential in an increasingly multilingual society. A legislative response to the social and political questions raised by the changing composition of the po [..]

a way of describing what you want the computer to do and hints how it can do it. Usually it is even more important that fellow humans understand your intent than the computer. The concept of language [..]

Computer programs can be written in a variety of different languages. Different languages are optimized for different tasks. Common languages include Java, C, C++, ForTran, Pascal, Lisp, and BASIC. So [..]

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The Dublin Core element used to designate the language of the intellectual content of the resource. Recommended best practice for the values of the Language element is defined by RFC 3066. See also &a [..]

The primeval language. Psammetichos, an Egyptian king, entrusted two new-born infants to a shepherd, with strict charge that they were never to hear any one utter a word. These children were afterward [..]

A set of symbols that are used to communicate information, including rules for how the symbols are used.

A set of characters, phonemes, conventions, and rules used for conveying information. The aspects of a language are pragmatics, semantics, syntax, phonology, and morphology.

The user's preferred language, such as English or Spanish. New user (visitor)

The OED definition of language begins with: ‘the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.’ This will do for us.

n. lengua, idioma; lenguage

is the primary means of communication for humans. It may be spoken or written and features productivity and displacement and is culturally transmitted.

A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

The Language and Sounds expressed by a Child at a particular maturational stage in development.

Specific Languages used to prepare Computer Programs.

The artificial Language of schizophrenic Patients - neologisms (words of the Patient's own making with new meanings).

A system of hand Gestures used for Communication by the deaf or by people speaking different Languages.

 the less language ability one has and the more essential language is to functioning well in the host culture, the more difficult it will be to function in the culture.

A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

In the context of colonialism and post-colonialism, language has often become a site for both colonization and resistance. In particular, a return to the original indigenous language is often advocate [..]

The features of the verbal behavior shared by the members of a verbal community, including their vocabulary and

A system which consists of a set of symbols (sentences) — realised phonetically by sounds — which are used in a regular order to convey a certain meaning. Apart from these formal characteristics, defi [..]

The use by human beings of voice sounds, and often written symbols representing these sounds, in organized combinations and patterns in order to express and communicate thoughts and feelings. Language [..]

"In ancient times, mankind spoke the divine solar language, and all the creatures of the earth, water, air, and fire knelt before mankind in obedience. But, when mankind ate of the forbidden fruit, he forgot the language of the Children of the Fire, and built the Tower of Babel. This tower symbolizes all the languages of the world. Consequentl [..]

API different scripts per language

When creating programs children are working with a programming language. This language will be made up of a series of predetermined symbols or words which have to be used with the correct syntax. Although the words or symbols might be similar from one application to the next, the instructions might yield different results. For example a right arrow [..]

A set of characters, conventions, and rules that is used for conveying information.

English

A language is a set of words or signals (sounds, gestures, writing) and the rules to combine them which enable a group of individuals to communicate. The study of language is linguistics.Over time, la [..]