The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
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.
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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.
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.
To communicate by language; to express in language.
A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
To convert a word to a noun.