different between language vs bleep
language
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)
- (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.
- 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:
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- (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.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:
- (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.
- 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:
- (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.
- 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:
- (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++.
- 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94
- (uncountable) Manner of expression.
- 1782, William Cowper, Hope
- Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]
- 1782, William Cowper, Hope
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- Archaic spelling of langage.
Middle English
Noun
language (plural languages)
- Alternative form of langage
Middle French
Alternative forms
- langage
- langaige
- languaige
Etymology
From Old French language.
Noun
language m (plural languages)
- language (style of communicating)
Related terms
- langue
Descendants
- French: langage
- Haitian Creole: langaj
- ? English: langaj
- Mauritian Creole: langaz
- Haitian Creole: langaj
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)
- 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
- Haitian Creole: langaj
- French: langage
- ? Old Spanish: lenguage
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bleep
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)
- A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
- What the bleep are you doing?
- (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
- 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)
- See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
- 2005, "oldgoth", Theaving[sic] Goths (on newsgroup uk.people.gothic)
- A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.
- 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)
Translations
Verb
bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)
- (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
- The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
- (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
- Synonym: blip
Derived terms
- bleeper
- bleep out
- bleepy
Translations
Anagrams
- plebe
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