language

Các nghĩa

1. tiếng · ngôn ngữ · tiếng nói

   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.

   countable

   The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.

   Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.

   No language could express his rage and despair.

2. lưỡi gà (trong ống sáo của đàn organ)

   The ability to communicate using words.

   uncountable

   the gift of language

3. ngôn ngữ · biệt ngữ · từ vựng

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

   uncountable

   legal language; the language of chemistry

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

   uncountable

5. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.

   countable · figuratively · uncountable

   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.

   Birding had become like that for me. It is a language that, once learnt, I have been unable to unlearn.

6. A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.

   countable · uncountable

   Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

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