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Language and Tongue Definitions

Language

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

Tongue

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.

Language

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

Tongue

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

Language

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

Tongue

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

A system of signs, symbols, gestures, or rules used in communicating
The language of algebra.

Tongue

A spoken language or dialect.

Language

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

Tongue

Speech; talk
If there is goodness in your heart, it will come to your tongue.

Language

Body language; kinesics.

Tongue

The act or power of speaking
She had no tongue to answer.
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Language

The special vocabulary and usages of a scientific, professional, or other group
"his total mastery of screen language—camera placement, editing—and his handling of actors" (Jack Kroll).

Tongue

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

Language

A characteristic style of speech or writing
Shakespearean language.

Tongue

Style or quality of utterance
Her sharp tongue.

Language

A particular manner of expression
Profane language.
Persuasive language.

Tongue

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game
The dog gave tongue when the fox came through the hedge.
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Language

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

Tongue

The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

Language

Verbal communication as a subject of study.

Tongue

A flame.

Language

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

Tongue

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

Language

(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.
The English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.

Tongue

A spit of land; a promontory.

Language

(uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
The gift of language

Tongue

A bell clapper.

Language

(uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
Legal language;
The language of chemistry

Tongue

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

Language

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

Tongue

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

Language

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

Tongue

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

Language

A computer language; a machine language.

Tongue

To touch or lick with the tongue.

Language

(uncountable) Manner of expression.

Tongue

To give (someone) a French-kiss.

Language

(uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.

Tongue

To provide (a board) with a tongue.

Language

(uncountable) Profanity.

Tongue

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

Language

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

Tongue

(Archaic) To scold.

Language

To communicate by language; to express in language.

Tongue

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

Language

An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.

Tongue

To project
A spit of land tonguing into the bay.

Language

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;

Tongue

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.

Language

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

Tongue

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
Cold tongue with mustard

Language

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

Tongue

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.

Language

The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
Others for language all their care express.

Tongue

(metonym) A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.

Language

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

Tongue

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

Language

The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
There was . . . language in their very gesture.

Tongue

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

Language

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

Tongue

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

Language

A race, as distinguished by its speech.
All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image.

Tongue

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

Language

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

Tongue

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Language

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.

Tongue

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Language

To communicate by language; to express in language.
Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

Tongue

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Language

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols;
He taught foreign languages
The language introduced is standard throughout the text
The speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written

Tongue

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

Language

(language) communication by word of mouth;
His speech was garbled
He uttered harsh language
He recorded the spoken language of the streets

Tongue

Glossolalia.

Language

A system of words used in a particular discipline;
Legal terminology
The language of sociology

Tongue

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).

Language

The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication;
He didn't have the language to express his feelings

Tongue

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.

Language

The mental faculty or power of vocal communication;
Language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals

Tongue

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
The tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

Language

The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number;
His compositions always started with the lyrics
He wrote both words and music
The song uses colloquial language

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

The clapper of a bell.

Tongue

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

Tongue

A small sole (type of fish).

Tongue

(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.

Tongue

(music) A reed.

Tongue

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

Tongue

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).
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

Tongue

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

Tongue

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
A soil horizon that tongues into clay

Tongue

To join by means of a tongue and groove.
To tongue boards together

Tongue

To talk; to prate.

Tongue

To speak; to utter.

Tongue

To chide; to scold.

Tongue

An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.

Tongue

The power of articulate utterance; speech.
Parrots imitating human tongue.

Tongue

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Tongue

Honorable discourse; eulogy.
She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor.

Tongue

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
Whose tongue thou shalt not understand.
To speak all tongues.

Tongue

Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.
My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Tongue

A people having a distinct language.
A will gather all nations and tongues.

Tongue

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

Tongue

Any small sole.

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

The clapper of a bell.

Tongue

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.

Tongue

To speak; to utter.

Tongue

To chide; to scold.
How might she tongue me.

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

To talk; to prate.

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

Any long thin projection that is transient;
Tongues of flame licked at the walls
Rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark

Tongue

A manner of speaking;
He spoke with a thick tongue
She has a glib tongue

Tongue

A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

Tongue

The tongue of certain animals used as meat

Tongue

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

Tongue

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

Tongue

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Tongue

Lick or explore with the tongue

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