What's the difference between language and pertain?

Language


Definition:

  • (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.

Pertain


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
  • (v. i.) To have relation or reference to something.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (2) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (4) We conclude that the procedure used in this study is a non-intrusive intervention that is an extension of the current literature pertaining to sensory extinction.
  • (5) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) We have attempted to provide an overview of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as it pertains to animal drugs and feed additives.
  • (8) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
  • (9) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
  • (10) Little information is available pertaining to infectious morbidity in women with genital malignancy.
  • (11) Also, it is proposed that the latent content of the personal myth pertains to traumatic experiences and conflictual wishes related to either or both the oedipal and the pre-oedipal phase of development.
  • (12) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
  • (13) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
  • (14) The basic principles needed for understanding these syndromes are the same as those that pertain to adults; however, the etiologic factors are quite different.
  • (15) Rauschia gen. nov. (type species: R. triangularis) is created for species previously pertaining to Nematodirus parasite of Lagomorpha, and in which the synlophe, very complex, differs from the synlophe of the parasite of Ruminants.
  • (16) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
  • (17) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
  • (18) A systematic study including morphologic, histologic, pathologic aspects of dens evaginatus was carried out and data were compared with those given in previous reports pertaining to dens evaginatus in other Asian countries.
  • (19) Population demographics and data pertaining to visits to other emergency departments were obtained.
  • (20) The averaged anesthetized alignment pertained to the whole group of 6.2 prism diopters of esotropia, which correlated poorly with the preoperative deviation.