1. s. 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 English language and the German language are related.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
2. s. The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3. s. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4. s. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
body language; the language of the eyes
5. s. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. s. (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
7. s. Manner of expression.
8. s. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
9. s. Profanity.
10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
11. s. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
tongue
1. s. Lengua
tongue
1. s. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different s
2. s. This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−
cold tongue with mustard
3. s. (metonym) A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.
4. s. (obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.
5. s. (obsolete) Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (gloss, distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
6. s. Manner of speaking, often habitually.
7. s. (metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
8. s. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
9. s. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
10. s. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
11. s. (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
12. s. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
13. s. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
14. s. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
15. s. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
16. s. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
17. s. The clapper of a bell.
18. s. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
19. s. A small sole (type of fish).
20. s. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
21. s. (music) A reed.
22. v. (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
23. v. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
24. v. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
a soil horizon that tongues into clay
25. v. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
to tongue boards together
26. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
