different between language vs chevron
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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chevron
English
Alternative forms
- cheveron (dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from French chevron (“rafter, chevron”), the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capri?, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's angular hind legs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??n/
Noun
chevron (plural chevrons)
- A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve
- (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- (chiefly Britain) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
- I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
- 2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- (informal) A há?ek, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
- 1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (Faber and Faber), page 107
- It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script.
- 1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66
- The symbol ? (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ? (as in Dvo?ák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058.
- 1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language (Faber and Faber), page 107
Synonyms
- (computing): wicket
- (Typographic and mathematical symbols): angle bracket
Translations
Further reading
- chevron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chevron in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
chevron (third-person singular simple present chevrons, present participle chevroning, simple past and past participle chevroned)
- To form or be formed into chevrons
- 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [1], page 14:
- ...the sheet to be chevroned locks itself into the furrow.
- 1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, ?ISBN, page 118:
- Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.
- 2003, Felice Picano, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay, ?ISBN, page 55:
- Earlier, in glaring winter daylight, I'd first noticed thin lines chevroning off the edge of each eye into the taut skin of his cheeks...
- 1963, Lucien Victor Gewiss, "Process and Devices for Chevroning Pliable Sheet Material," US Patent 3397261 [1], page 14:
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *capri?, *capri?nem, from *capreus, cf. also caprone. Ultimately from Latin caper (“goat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.v???/
Noun
chevron m (plural chevrons)
- rafter
- (heraldry) chevron
Related terms
- chèvre
Further reading
- “chevron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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