LANGUAGES
1a: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community
1b: (1): audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs (2): a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings (3): the suggestion by objects, actions, or conditions of associated ideas or feelings (4): the means by which animals communicate (5): a formal system of signs and symbols including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible expressions (6): machine language 2a: form or manner of verbal expression; specifically : style 2b: the vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or a department of knowledge 2c: profanity 3: the study of language especially as a school subject 4: specific words especially in a law or regulation Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/language |