(n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
(n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
(n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
(n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
(n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
(n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
(n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
(n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.
(v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(2) The original sample included 1200 high school males within each of 30 language and cultural communities.
(3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(4) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(5) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
(8) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(9) Language and discussion develop the intellect, she argues.
(10) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(11) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(12) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(13) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(14) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(15) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
(16) At the House Ear Institute, speech and language assessments are a regular part of the evaluation protocol for the cochlear implant clinical trials in children.
(17) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(18) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(19) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(20) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
Mandarin
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
(n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not so much a problem affecting a specific cultivation, but rather a conflict of food security.” Citrus crops have already been hit by the heat this year, with production of some types of mandarins and clementines forecast to be down by as much as 25%.
(2) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
(3) The non-English parts of the UK are represented by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Office mandarin who chaired the All Wales convention on the Welsh assembly's lawmaking powers, Professor Charlie Jeffery, of Edinburgh University's academy of government, and Professor Yvonne Galligan, of Queen's University Belfast.
(4) The purpose of the present study is to explore both the effects of age and the semantic and syntactic structures of reading materials on the omission rate of "de", the most frequently used character in Mandarin.
(5) Despite the country’s tremendous fiscal consolidation – a record in the history of the EU – senior EU mandarins, from the euro group president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, to the monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, and Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, are all at pains to emphasise that there is still “a great deal to be done” (even if Schauble has increasingly adopted a sweet tone when he speaks about matters Greek).
(6) "The way we acquired information was sometimes illegal," Humphrey said in Mandarin.
(7) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
(8) Sir Stephen Lamport, the prince’s former private secretary, and the veteran Whitehall mandarin Sir Alex Allan, were called to give evidence in favour of keeping the letters secret, but they failed to persuade the three tribunal judges, who ordered the letters to be published in September 2012.
(9) She experienced asthmatic attacks while picking leaves and harvesting mandarin oranges.
(10) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
(11) The requests were originally refused by Whitehall mandarins, who were supported by the information commissioner in a December 2009 ruling.
(12) As Johnson piled the pressure on Romney, the Republican was at the nearby Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for a fundraiser in central London on Thursday night.
(13) After activists staged stunts outside Mandarin Oriental Hotels in London and New York and people took to the hotel chain’s Facebook page to voice their disapproval, it was only a matter of days before Astra issued a statement announcing an immediate moratorium on deforestation .
(14) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(15) Winterton challenged the £1.1m cost of an audit of MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
(16) David Cameron has accused him of cowardice, his mandarins are being accused of bias and UK ministers are trying to usurp his role as Scotland's most influential ambassador.
(17) The Mandarin could have been a better villain, maybe.")
(18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
(19) The Institute for Government has just produced research which points out that neither the Foreign Office nor the Treasury has ever been headed by a female mandarin.
(20) I know of no one here,” an anonymous senior official told the Guardian at the time, “who would dissent from the view that morale is the worst in living memory.” The part of the Treasury where the threatened mandarins worked became known as “the corridor of death”.