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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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isolation
English
Etymology
[1800] From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?s??le???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- 1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of Irving Louis Horowitz (editor), Cuban Communism, Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985), page 486:
- As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.
- 1993 September, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 49, Number 7, page 8:
- Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]
- 2009, Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, Regnery Publishing, ?ISBN, page 49:
- It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.
- 1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of Irving Louis Horowitz (editor), Cuban Communism, Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985), page 486:
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Related terms
- insulate
- insulation
- isolate
- isolatedness
Derived terms
Translations
French
Etymology
isoler +? -ation. Attested since 1774.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.z?.la.sj??/
Noun
isolation f (plural isolations)
- isolation; insulation
- (linguistics) isolation (low number of morphemes per word on average)
- (psychology) isolation (a Freudian defense mechanism)
Usage notes
- isolation nowadays has a connotation of physical isolation or insulation as a form of protection, chiefly of objects.
- isolement nowadays has a connotation of isolation in the sense of exclusion.
- In older texts, the two may be used more interchangeably.
Related terms
- isoler
- isolement
Further reading
- “isolation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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