language : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
  Afrasian language; Afroasiatic; Afrasian; Afro-Asiatic; Hamito-Semitic.
  

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• noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
  Afrasian language; Afroasiatic; Afrasian; Afro-Asiatic; Hamito-Semitic.
  

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• noun an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions
  

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• noun family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
  Algonquian; Algonquin.
  

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• noun an artificial language designed to express algorithms
  

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• noun a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
  Altaic.
  

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• noun the English language as used in the United States
  American; American English.
  

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• noun the sign language used in the United States
  ASL.
  

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• noun any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
  Indian; American Indian; American-Indian language; Amerind.
  

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• noun any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
  Indian; American Indian; American-Indian language; Amerind.
  

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• a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.

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• noun an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
  Anatolian.
  

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• noun a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user
  application-oriented language.
  

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• noun the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
  Arabic.
  

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• noun the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan
  Armenian.
  

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• noun a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
  

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• noun a low-level programing language; close approximation to machine language
  

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• noun a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
  Athabascan; Athapaskan; Athabaskan; Athapascan.
  

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• noun a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
  Austro-Asiatic; Munda-Mon-Khmer.
  

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• noun the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
  Austronesian.
  

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• noun software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European
  Baltic.
  

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• noun a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
  Balto-Slavonic; Balto-Slavic.
  

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• noun a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
  Bantu.
  

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• noun communication via the movements or attitudes of the body
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo
  Caddo; Caddoan.
  

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• noun a group of Semitic languages
  Canaanitic.
  

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• noun the family of languages spoken by the Carib
  Carib.
  

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• noun a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
  Caucasian.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era
  Celtic.
  

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• noun a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
  Chadic; Chad.
  

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• noun an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women
  Chukchi.
  

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• noun a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed
  command language; query language.
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  

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• noun a tone language that uses pitch changes
  

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• noun any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
  Dardic; Dard.
  

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• noun a language that is no longer learned as a native language
  

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• a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

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• noun a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
  Dravidic; Dravidian; Dravidian language.
  

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• noun a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
  Dravidic; Dravidian; Dravidian language.
  

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• a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

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• noun an extinct branch of the Germanic languages
  East Germanic.
  

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• noun an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
  English.
  

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• noun the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
  Eskimo-Aleut.
  

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• noun the dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a Semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara have been in close contact
  Amharic.
  

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• noun one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
  first language; mother tongue.
  

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• noun the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
  German; High German.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
  Germanic.
  

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• noun a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
  Hamitic language; Hamitic.
  

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• noun a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
  Hamitic language; Hamitic.
  

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• the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Som&acir;li Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic.

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• the art of conversing by the hands, esp. as practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology.

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• noun the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
  Hellenic; Greek.
  

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• noun a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run
  

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• noun a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong
  Hmong; Miao.
  

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• noun the branch of information science that deals with natural language information
  human language technology; NLP.
  

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• noun a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
  HTML; hypertext mark-up language.
  

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• noun a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
  HTML; hypertext mark-up language.
  

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• noun a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere
  

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• noun the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
  Indo-European; Indo-Hittite.
  

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• noun the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
  Indo-Iranian.
  

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• (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

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• noun the modern Persian language spoken in Iran
  Iranian.
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
  Iroquoian; Iroquois.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
  Italic language; Italic.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
  Italic language; Italic.
  

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• the group or family of languages of ancient Italy.

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• noun a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system
  

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• noun a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
  Kam-Tai; Kadai.
  

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• noun a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
  Khoisan.
  

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• noun a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language
  language area.
  

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• noun barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages
  

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• noun learning to use a language
  

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• noun a period of instruction learning a language
  

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• a teacher of languages.Obs.

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• noun a requirement that a student know certain languages
  

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• noun a school for teaching foreign languages
  

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• noun a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language
  

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• noun teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language
  

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• noun one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
  linguistic unit.
  

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• noun a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language
  language area.
  

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• noun the group of languages derived from Latin
  Romance; Latinian language.
  

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• the language used in legal writings and forms.

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• noun a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
  LISP.
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  
• noun a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation
  machine code.
  

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• noun a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
  computer language; machine language; computer-oriented language.
  

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• noun the national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French
  Maltese; Malti.
  

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• the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China.

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• noun the language spoken by the Maraco
  Maraco.
  

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• noun a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document
  

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• noun one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
  first language; mother tongue.
  

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• noun a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya
  Mayan; Maya.
  

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• noun a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia
  Mongolic; Mongolian.
  

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• noun a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
  Muskhogean; Muskogean; Muskhogean language.
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
  Muskhogean; Muskogean; Muskhogean language.
  

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• noun the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood
  

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

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• noun the branch of information science that deals with natural language information
  human language technology; NLP.
  

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• noun an application program that deals with natural language text
  natural language processing application.
  

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• noun an application program that deals with natural language text
  natural language processing application.
  

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• noun the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
  Niger-Kordofanian.
  

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• noun a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
  Nilo-Saharan.
  

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• noun a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
  Nilotic.
  

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• noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
  North Germanic language; Norse; Scandinavian; Nordic; North Germanic.
  

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• noun a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated
  object language.
  
• noun the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
  object language.
  

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• noun (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure
  object-oriented programing language.
  
  • C++ is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C

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• noun (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure
  object-oriented programing language.
  
  • C++ is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C

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• noun a programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters
  

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• noun any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages
  Papuan.
  

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• noun a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user
  application-oriented language.
  

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• noun (computer science) a language designed for programming computers
  programing language.
  

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• noun (computer science) a language designed for programming computers
  programing language.
  

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• noun the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
  Kechua; Kechuan; Quechuan; Quechua.
  

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• noun a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed
  command language; query language.
  

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• noun a tone language that uses different voice registers
  

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• noun the group of languages derived from Latin
  Romance; Latinian language.
  

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• noun (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
  Sanskrit.
  

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• noun the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
  North Germanic language; Norse; Scandinavian; Nordic; North Germanic.
  

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Sea" lan"guage

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1. The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

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• noun a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed
  command language; query language.
  

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• a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Ph&oe;nician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic).

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• noun a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States
  Shoshonean; Shoshonian; Shoshonean language.
  

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• noun a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States
  Shoshonean; Shoshonian; Shoshonean language.
  

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• noun language expressed by visible hand gestures
  signing.
  

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• adjective satellite used of the language of the deaf
  gestural; signed; sign.
  

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• noun a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
  Sinitic.
  

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• noun the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
  Sino-Tibetan.
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux
  Siouan.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
  Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic.
  

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• noun a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
  Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic.
  

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• noun a language that is to be translated into another language
  

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• noun (language) communication by word of mouth
  oral communication; language; voice communication; speech communication; speech; spoken communication.
  
  • his speech was garbled
  • he uttered harsh language
  • he recorded the spoken language of the streets

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• noun (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted
  SGML.
  

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• noun a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage
  

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• noun a language used to describe the syntax of another language
  

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• an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; opposed to analytic language. R. Morris.

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• noun a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States
  Tanoan.
  

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• noun the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
  object language.
  
• noun a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated
  object language.
  

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• a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages.

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• noun a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
  Tibeto-Burman.
  

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• noun a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
  tonal language.
  

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• noun a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
  tonal language.
  

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• noun a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas
  Tungusic.
  

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• noun a family of South American Indian languages
  Tupi-Guarani.
  

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• noun a subfamily of Altaic languages
  Turko-Tatar; Turki; Turkic.
  

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• noun a programming language that (like natural language) can be used as its own metalanguage
  

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• noun a family of Ural-Altaic languages
  Uralic.
  

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• noun a family of American Indian languages
  Uto-Aztecan.
  

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• noun a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington
  Wakashan.
  

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• noun a branch of the Germanic languages
  West Germanic.
  

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• noun communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)
  written communication; black and white.
  

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