English-Thai Dictionary

language

N ภาษา  speech dialect pa-sa

 

language

N วิธีการสื่อสาร  คำพูด  ภาษาพูด  wi-te-kan-sue-san

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LANGUAGE

n.[L. lingua, the tongue, and speech. ] 1. Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented by letters, marks or characters which form words. Hence language consists also in
2. Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.
3. The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation. Men had originally one and the same language, but the tribes or families of men, since their dispersion, have distinct languages.
4. Style; manner of expression.
Others for language all their care express.
5. The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants. Each species of animals has peculiar sounds, which are uttered instinctively, and are understood by its own species, and its own species only.
6. Any manner of expressing thoughts. Thus we speak of the language of the eye, a language very expressive and intelligible.
7. A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29.

 

LANGUAGED

a.Having a language; as many languaged nations.

 

LANGUAGE-MASTER

n.One whose profession is to teach languages.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LANGUAGE

Lan "guage, n. Etym: [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual. ]

 

1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.

 

Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words.

 

2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.

 

3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.

 

4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. Others for language all their care express. Pope.

 

5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

 

6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. There was. .. language in their very gesture. Shak.

 

7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

 

8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.] All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. Dan. iii. 7. Language master, a teacher of languages.[Obs. ]

 

Syn. -- Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction; discourse; conversation; talk. -- Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo- Saxon tern for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties if expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.

 

LANGUAGE

Lan "guage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Languaged; p. pr. & vb. n.Languaging.]

 

Defn: To communicate by language; to express in language. Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller.

 

LANGUAGED

LANGUAGED Lan "guaged, a.

 

Defn: Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.

 

LANGUAGELESS

LANGUAGELESS Lan "guage *less, a.

 

Defn: Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

language

lan guage |ˈlaNGgwij ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ | ▶noun 1 the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way: a study of the way children learn language | [ as modifier ] : language development. • any nonverbal method of expression or communication: a language of gesture and facial expression. 2 the system of communication used by a particular community or country: the book was translated into twenty-five languages. • Computing a system of symbols and rules for writing programs or algorithms: a new programming language. 3 the manner or style of a piece of writing or speech: he explained the procedure in simple, everyday language. • the phraseology and vocabulary of a certain profession, domain, or group of people: legal language. • (usu. as bad /strong language ) coarse, crude, or offensive language: strong language. PHRASES speak the same language understand one another as a result of shared opinions or values. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French langage, based on Latin lingua ‘tongue. ’

 

language area

lan guage ar e a ▶noun 1 Physiology the area of the cerebral cortex thought to be particularly involved in the processing of language: the language areas of the left cerebral hemisphere. 2 a region where a particular language is spoken.

 

language arts

lan guage arts ▶noun the study of grammar, composition, spelling, and (sometimes ) public speaking, typically taught as a single subject in elementary and middle school.

 

language engineering

lan guage en gi neer ing |ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ ˌɛnʤəˈnɪ (ə )rɪŋ | ▶noun any of a variety of computing procedures that use tools such as machine-readable dictionaries and sentence parsers in order to process natural languages for industrial applications such as speech recognition and speech synthesis.

 

language laboratory

lan guage lab o ra to ry |ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ ˈlæbrəˌtɔri |(also language lab ) ▶noun a room equipped with audio and visual equipment, such as tape and video recorders, for learning a foreign language.

 

language of flowers

lan guage of flow ers ▶noun a set of symbolic meanings attached to different flowers when they are given or arranged.

 

Oxford Dictionary

language

lan |guage |ˈlaŋgwɪdʒ | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way: a study of the way children learn language | [ as modifier ] : language development. • a non-verbal method of expression or communication: body language. 2 a system of communication used by a particular country or community: the book was translated into twenty-five languages. • Computing a system of symbols and rules for writing programs or algorithms. 3 [ mass noun ] the style of a piece of writing or speech: he explained the procedure in simple, everyday language. • the phraseology and vocabulary of a particular profession, domain, or group: legal language. • (usu. as bad /foul /strong language ) coarse or offensive language. PHRASES speak the same language understand one another as a result of shared opinions or values. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French langage, based on Latin lingua ‘tongue ’.

 

language area

lan |guage area ▶noun 1 Physiology the area of the cerebral cortex thought to be particularly involved in the processing of language. 2 a region where a particular language is spoken.

 

language arts

lan guage arts ▶noun the study of grammar, composition, spelling, and (sometimes ) public speaking, typically taught as a single subject in elementary and middle school.

 

language engineering

lan |guage en ¦gin |eer |ing ▶noun [ mass noun ] any of a variety of computing procedures that use tools such as machine-readable dictionaries and sentence parsers in order to process natural languages for industrial applications such as speech recognition and speech synthesis.

 

language laboratory

lan |guage la ¦bora |tory ▶noun a room equipped with audio and visual equipment, such as tape and video recorders, for learning a foreign language.

 

language of flowers

lan |guage of flowers ▶noun [ mass noun ] a set of symbolic meanings attached to different flowers when they are given or arranged.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

language

language noun 1 the structure of language: speech, writing, communication, conversation, speaking, talking, talk, discourse; words, vocabulary. 2 the English language: tongue, mother tongue, native tongue; dialect, patois, slang, idiom, jargon, argot, cant; informal lingo. 3 the booklet is written in simple, everyday language: wording, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, form /mode of expression, usages, locutions, choice of words, idiolect; informal lingo. WORD LINKS linguistic relating to language linguistics the scientific study of language Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE language Made in the USA Akin to the theoretical pleasure of explaining the rules of baseball to an Oxford don is the perpetuation of sentences composed of neologisms made in the USA: “The G-man, clad in tuxedo and T-shirt, played strip poker with the terrorist wannabe before wasting him at a unisex boutique. ” Try explaining that to anyone caught in a 1928 time-warp. Why 1928? Because that year the last part of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. It is now updated (itself a term unknown in 1928 ) online quarterly, but the first revision was edited by Robert Burchfield, who completed A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986. The final volume of the Supplement includes the nouns sit-com, sit-in, teenager, touchdown, transistor, and the adjective user-friendly, and one might write a sestina using precisely these as the six recurrent endwords on which the sestina as a form is based. “The center of gravity for the English language is no longer Britain, ” Burchfield observed in 1986. “American English is the greatest influence on English everywhere. ” — DL Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

language

language noun 1 the grammatical structure of language: speech, writing, communication, verbal expression, verbalization, vocalization, conversation, speaking, talking, words, utterance, vocabulary, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, talk, discourse, interchange, intercourse, interaction; archaic converse. 2 the English language: tongue, speech, mother tongue, native tongue, dialect, vernacular; Indian bhasha; informal lingo. 3 the language of tabloid journalism | different varieties of language: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of writing /speaking, way of talking, form /mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory; speech, dialect, vernacular, regionalisms, provincialisms, localisms, patois, lingua franca, slang, idioms, colloquialisms, jargon, argot, barbarisms, vulgarisms, cant, newspeak; pidgin English, Creole; informal lingo, legalese, journalese, technospeak, gobbledegook. WORD LINKS language -glot related suffix, as in polyglot linguistic relating to language linguistics scientific study of language Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

language

lan guage /lǽŋɡwɪdʒ / (! -gua-は /ɡwɪ /) 〖語源は 「舌 」〗名詞 複 ～s /-ɪz /1 C (特定の地域で話される )言語 ; U (一般的に )言語 , 言葉 ; 〖しばしば形容詞的に 〗言葉の ▸ the English [Japanese ] language 英 [日本 ]語 (!学科名の場合はtheを付けない ) ▸ learn a foreign language 外国語を学ぶ ▸ one's native [first ] language 母語 (mother tongue )▸ language skills 言語技能 ▸ the official languages of India インドの公用語 ▸ a common [shared ] language 共通語 2 U (意思伝達の手段としての )言語 ▸ spoken [written ] language 話し [書き ]言葉 3 U 〖種類では 可算 〗〘コンピュ 〙(プログラミングに用いる )言語 ▸ a programming language プログラミング言語 ▸ a computer language コンピュータ言語 4 U (専門 )用語 ▸ the language of diplomacy 外交用語 ▸ poetic language 詩的な表現 5 U 〖種類では 可算 〗(音声や文字によらない )言語 ; 言葉 ; (動物の )鳴き声 ▸ sign language 手話 6 U 言葉遣い ; 言い回し ; ｟くだけて ｠暴言 ; 悪口 ▸ use bad [foul, strong, ｟おどけて ｠colorful ] language 悪い [ののしり ]言葉を使う (!strong ～は 「激しい言葉 」も意味する ) ▸ street language 粗野な言葉 7 U 語学 ; 言語学 .sp è ak [t à lk ] a d ì fferent l á nguage 話が合わない, 考え方が違う .sp è ak [t à lk ] the s à me [A's ] l á nguage お互いに [A 〈人 〉と ]話が合う [考え方が一致している ].w à tch [m ì nd ] one's l á nguage ＝watch one's tongue .～́ à rts (教科としての )国語 (表現法 ) 〘初等 中等学校で 〙.～́ b à rrier 言葉の障壁 .～́ l à boratory [l à b ]語学教室 (!LLと略すのは和製英語 ) .～̀ of fl ó wers 〖the ～〗花言葉 .～́ sch ò ol (外国人のための )語学学校 .～́ t è aching 言語教育 .