(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.
Saxon
Definition:
(n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
(n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.
(a.) Anglo-Saxon.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
(2) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
(3) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(4) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.
(5) Three hundred actively employed female registered professional nurses representing four cultural groups (white Anglo-Saxon, black, Jewish, and Hispanic) participated in a study to investigate nurses' attitudes toward culturally different patients.
(6) There was no apparent pathology associated with the presence of this new glycosylated albumin, which was detected in two unrelated individuals of Anglo-Saxon descent.
(7) Despite five days far from home and then hours flying through uncertain skies, the first passengers back into Heathrow last night exuded little more than relief and Anglo-Saxon sangfroid.
(8) In 2013, at the opening of RT’s new studios, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin , told Simonyan that the aim of the channel had been “to break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on global information streams”.
(9) "Part of what has given Britain clout in the last 15 years has been that our economy has been seen to be successful, but the whole Anglo-Saxon model has taken a great knock," says Niblett.
(10) The reduction in uricaemia encountered in the five patients studied failed to agree with data reported in the Anglo-Saxon literature.
(11) A literature review demonstrated that up to 27.2% of persons of Spanish and 12.3% of Anglo-Saxon heritage but virtually no blacks or persons of Eastern origin are heterozygous for AAT alleles.
(12) Among Anglo-Saxons the rate was less than 0.5% and in French Canada it commonly exceeded 0.94%.
(13) Bronchial asthma in old people is defined, according to a number of Anglo-Saxon authors, as a disease which occurs for the first time (de novo) at an advanced age (i.e.
(14) He accepted the description used by Bob Geldof, well known for his own use of Anglo-Saxon words, as “no slouch” when it comes to swearing.
(15) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(16) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(17) At home, the family spoke German: "When I brought Anglo-Saxons home to play, I was conscious of the fact that I was taking them to a foreign place."
(18) If the debate seems strange to Anglo-Saxons, it is because French attitudes to wealth, taxation and the state are fundamentally different, though the issue of how much the wealthy should pay is not a new debate.
(19) Yet behind the British sangfroid, there was a real concern that Merkel and Sarkozy were playing right into the media narrative of a split between European social democrats and the Anglo-Saxon free marketeers, the precise narrative Obama tried to dismiss.
(20) Pathological screening-test results (Schirmer- and Saxon-test) were followed by ENT- and ophthalmological investigations and examinations in the field of internal medicine.