language

中文： 语言、话、用语、词语

1. 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. (countable) · The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.· Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
2. The ability to communicate using words. (uncountable) · the gift of language
3. A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. (uncountable) · legal language; the language of chemistry
4. The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract. (uncountable)
5. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · body language; the language of the eyes
6. A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate. (countable, uncountable)
7. A computer language; a machine language. (countable)
8. A manner of expression. (uncountable)

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