The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
A computer language; a machine language.
A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
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.
Profanity.
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
Manner of expression.
The ability to communicate using words.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
To communicate by language; to express in language.
An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.
A word or phrase used to address or refer to someone or something without using his, her, or its name.