different between language vs address

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (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.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     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.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

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

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

English

Etymology

From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“to”)) + drecier (modern French dresser (“to straighten, arrange”)) < Vulgar Latin *d?recti?, from Latin d?rectus (“straight or right”), from the verb d?rig?, itself from reg? (“to govern, to rule”). Cognate with Spanish aderezar (“to garnish; dress (food); to add spices”).

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • enPR: ?dr?s?, ??dr?s, IPA^(key): /??d??s/, /?æd??s/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dr?s?, IPA^(key): /??d??s/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: ?dr?s?, ?dr?s?, IPA^(key): /??d??s/, /æ?d??s/
  • (General American, rare) enPR: ??dr?s, IPA^(key): /?æd??s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: ad?dress

Noun

address (plural addresses)

1. Direction.
   1. (obsolete) Guidance; help. [15th–17th c.]
   2. (chiefly in the plural, now archaic) A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. [from 16th c.]
      • 1723, Richard Steele, The Lover and Reader, page 115:

        [H]e was thus agreeable, and I neither insensible of his Perfections, nor displeased at his Addresses to me […] .

   3. A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. [from 16th c.]

   4. A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament. [from 17th c.]
   5. An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. [from 17th c.]
      • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, VII:

        Mr. Gregson, who had listened to this address with considerable impatience, could contain himself no longer.

   6. A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. [from 17th c.]

   7. (by extension) The property itself. [from 19th c.]

   8. (computing) A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address. [from 20th c.]

2. Preparation.
   1. (now rare) Preparedness for some task; resourcefulness; skill, ability. [from 16th c.]
      • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 129:

        The warmth of Father Pedro's constitution had formerly drawn him into some scrapes from which it required all his address to disengage himself, and rendered him exceedingly cautious ever after.

      • 1813, "Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople", The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, p. 179 (Google preview):

        At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.

   2. (obsolete) The act of getting ready; preparation. [17th–18th c.]
      • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:

        But now again she makes address to speak.

   3. (golf) The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• adroitness
• discourse
• harangue
• ingenuity
• lecture
• oration
• petition
• readiness
• speech
• tact

Derived terms

• subaddress

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: adres
• ? Bole: adireshi
• ? Cebuano: adres
• ? Sinhalese: ??????? (æ?ras)
• ? Tagalog: adres

Translations

Verb

address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.

   • Young Turnus to the Beauteous Maid addre?s’d.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I Canto X:

     And this good knight his way with me addrest.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
   • Then Turnus, from his chariot, leaping light, Addre?s’d him?elf on foot to ?ingle fight.

   • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution

     The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming.

5. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     […] good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.

6. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
   • 1701, Thomas Brown, Laconics, or New Maxims of State and Conversation, London: Thomas Hodgson, section 76, p. 103,^[1]

     In the Reign of King Charles the Second, a certain Worthy Divine at Whitehall, thus Address’d himself to the Auditory at the conclusion of his Sermon.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 11,^[2]

     He addressed himself directly to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation […]

   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 66, Article V, Section 34,^[3]

     When any member is about to speak in debate, he shall rise and respectfully address himself to “Mr. Chairman.”

7. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.

   Synonyms: beclothe, dight, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
8. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (transitive) To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).

   • though the young Heroe had addre?s’d his Prayers to him for his a??i?tance

9. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.

   • Are not your orders to address the senate?

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 3

     The representatives of the nation in parliament, and the privy council, address the king

   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

     Rimmer paused for no discernible reason, then yelled, equally inexplicably: 'Shut up!', wheeled round 180º, and appeared to be addressing a dartboard.
10. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.

11. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

    Synonyms: romance, put the moves on; see also Thesaurus:woo

12. (transitive) To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.

13. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
    • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

      He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.
14. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
15. (transitive, computing) To refer to a location in computer memory.
16. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

Usage notes

• The intransitive uses can be understood as omission of the reflexive pronoun.

Derived terms

• addressee
• addresser

Translations

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?adr?s/

Noun

address (plural addresses)

1. an address

Verb

address (third-person singular present addresses, present participle addressin, past addresst, past participle addresst)

1. to address

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.