Language vs. Tongue

Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.

The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.

Such a system including its rules for combining its components, such as words.

An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.

Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect.

The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.

A system of signs, symbols, gestures, or rules used in communicating

A spoken language or dialect.

(Computers) A system of symbols and rules used for communication with or between computers.

Speech; talk

Body language; kinesics.

The act or power of speaking

The special vocabulary and usages of a scientific, professional, or other group

Tongues Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.

A characteristic style of speech or writing

Style or quality of utterance

A particular manner of expression

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game

The manner or means of communication between living creatures other than humans

The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

Verbal communication as a subject of study.

A flame.

The wording of a legal document or statute as distinct from the spirit.

The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.

(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.

A spit of land; a promontory.

(uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

A bell clapper.

(uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.

The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.

A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.

A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.

(Music) To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.

A computer language; a machine language.

To touch or lick with the tongue.

(uncountable) Manner of expression.

To give (someone) a French-kiss.

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

To provide (a board) with a tongue.

(uncountable) Profanity.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

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

(Archaic) To scold.

To communicate by language; to express in language.

(Music) To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.

An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.

To project

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).

The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.

(metonym) A language.

The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.

(obsolete) Voice the distinctive sound of a person's speech; accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.

The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

A race, as distinguished by its speech.

(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

Any system of symbols created for the purpose of communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between sentient agents.

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Any set of symbols and the rules for combining them which are used to specify to a computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to as a computer lanugage or programming language; as, JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has achieved popularity very rapidly.

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

To communicate by language; to express in language.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols;

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

(language) communication by word of mouth;

Glossolalia.

A system of words used in a particular discipline;

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication;

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

The mental faculty or power of vocal communication;

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number;

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

A small sole (type of fish).

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

(music) A reed.

(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

To talk; to prate.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Honorable discourse; eulogy.

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.

A people having a distinct language.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

Any small sole.

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

To talk; to prate.

To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Any long thin projection that is transient;

A manner of speaking;

A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

The tongue of certain animals used as meat

The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Lick or explore with the tongue