What's the difference between language and prose?

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.

Prose


Definition:

  • (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
  • (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  • (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
  • (v. t.) To write in prose.
  • (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
  • (v. i.) To write prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
  • (3) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
  • (4) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
  • (5) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
  • (6) It was concluded that CAs are more effective and more efficient than prose for teaching clinical decisionmaking.
  • (7) Young and old adults were tested for recall of ideas presented in a 641 word prose passage.
  • (8) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  • (9) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
  • (10) He writes poetry and prose, he writes news reports and short stories.
  • (11) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
  • (12) These models account for a broad range of memory-related processes, including word recognition, sentence verification, prose comprehension, and sentence production.
  • (13) • Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
  • (14) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
  • (15) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
  • (16) Ada banyak prakarsa dari bawah ke atas, mulai dari usaha pengelolaan sampah hingga tingkat nol sampai proses pengelolaan air kotor secara komunal.
  • (17) Subjects suffering from persecutory delusions, psychiatric controls and normal subjects were required to recall immediately six passages of prose, half of which contained mildly threatening propositions.
  • (18) But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.
  • (19) P3 measures, physiological (body temperature, heart rate, subjective alertness), and cognitive performance (digit span, prose memory, digit symbol) variables were assessed.
  • (20) Someone with a decent prose style should do a proper translation of it.