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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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scrip
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk??p/
Etymology 1
From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”). Doublet of scarf.
Noun
scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)
- A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
- A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
- (archaic) Small change.
- 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633
- In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.
- 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633
Etymology 2
Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.
Noun
scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)
- A scrap of paper.
- A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.
- A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender for payment of wages.
- Synonym: chit
- A substitute for legal tender that is produced by a local government or a private organization.
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of subscription receipt.
Noun
scrip (plural scrips)
- A share certificate.
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of prescription.
Noun
scrip (plural scrips)
- (informal, Britain, US) A medical prescription.
References
- scrip at OneLook Dictionary Search
- scrip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Crips, Crisp, crips, crisp
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English scrip, clipping of subscription receipt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skr?p/
- Hyphenation: scrip
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
scrip m (plural scrips)
- scrip (share certificate)
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