language

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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, […]
  3. The ability to communicate using words. uncountable
    — the gift of language
  4. A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. uncountable
    — legal language; the language of chemistry
  5. The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract. uncountable
    — Technological advances are notorious for exposing the open-endedness of the language in our laws, even when we thought our definitions were airtight. Lawmakers can’t anticipate everything. Indeed, you could make the case that the whole area of patent law just is the problem of deciding whether some new technology should fall within the range of the language of the patent.
  6. 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
  7. A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  8. A computer language; a machine language. countable
    — In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.
  9. A manner of expression. uncountable
    — Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]
  10. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text. uncountable
    — The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
  11. Profanity. euphemistic,uncountable
    — "Where the hell is Horace?" ¶ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language."
动词 v.
  1. To communicate by language; to express in language. nonstandard,rare
    — Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
感叹词 intj.
  1. An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
    — Nancy: So... me and Barbara are gonna study at her house tonight. That's cool, right? / Karen: No, not cool. / Nancy: What? Why not? / Karen: Why do you think? Am I speaking Chinese in this house? Until we know Will is okay, no one leaves. / Nancy: This is such bullshit. / Ted: Language. / Nancy: So we're under house arrest? Just because Mike's friend got lost on the way home from... / Mike: Wait, this is Will's fault? / Karen: Nancy, take that back. / Nancy: No! / Mike: You're just pissed off 'cause you wanna hang out with Steve. / Ted: Steve? / Karen: Who's Steve? / Mike: Her new boyfriend. / Nancy: You are such a douchebag, Mike! / Ted: Language!

词形变化

languages plural languages present,singular,third-person languaging participle,present languaged participle,past languaged past languages plural

词汇关系

近义词
computer language programming language machine language language leid lingo speech tongue
上位词
medium
下位词
adult language artificial language auxiliary language bad language body language common language computer computing language constructed language corpus language dead language endangered language engineered language everyday language experimental language extinct language foreign language formal language foul language global language hardware description language indigenous language international language link language literary language living language logical language machine language main language mathematical language meta language metaphorical language micronational language minority language modern language multi-paradigm language natural language object language pattern language philosophical language phonetic language planned language principal language private language programming language scripting language secular language sign language spoken language standardized language standard language subject-oriented language target language universal language vehicular language vernacular language working language world language active-stative language agglutinative language analytic language command language configuration language construction language description language direct-inverse language E-language ergative-absolutive language I-language isolating language modeling language nominative-accusative language oligosynthetic language OV language polysynthetic language synthetic language tripartite language VO language creole pidgin lingua franca heritage language computer language birthtongue first language L1 mother language mother tongue native language native tongue vernacular vulgate father tongue L2 second language Sino-Tibetan language Indo-European language Romance language Slavic language Germanic language Celtic language fusional language inflected language
相关词
langue lingua lingua franca linguine tonguage linguistics languoid
部分词
acrolect argot basilect cant chronolect cryptolect dialect ecolect ethnolect idiolect idiom isolect jargon lect matrilect mesilect mesolect mimolect paralect parlance patois patrilect similect slang sociolect topolect xenolect expression grammar phrase sign statement symbol term vocabulary word wording

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
Latin dingua
Latin lingua
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Vulgar Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Vulgar Latin -icus
Vulgar Latin -āticus
Vulgar Latin -āticum
Vulgar Latin *linguāticum
Old French languagebor.
Middle English langage
English language
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
词源 2
Alteration of languet.
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