lenguaje

Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
primary sense of language, the use of which is to
communicate the thoughts of one person to another
through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
characters, which form words.
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2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
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3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
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4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
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Others for language all their care express. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
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6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
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There was . . . language in their very gesture. --Shak.
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7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
language of chemistry or theology.
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8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. R. [1913 Webster]

All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. --Dan. iii. 7.
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9. Any system of symbols created for the purpose of communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between
sentient agents.
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10. Specifically: (computers) Any set of symbols and the rules for combining them which are used to specify to a
computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to
as a {computer lanugage} or {programming language}; as,
JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has
achieved popularity very rapidly.
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Note: Computer languages are classed a low-level if each instruction specifies only one operation of the
computer, or high-level if each instruction may specify
a complex combination of operations. {Machine language}
and {assembly language} are low-level computer
languages. {FORTRAN}, {COBOL} and {C} are high-level
computer languages. Other computer languages, such as
JAVA, allow even more complex combinations of low-level
operations to be performed with a single command. Many
programs, such as databases, are supplied with special
languages adapted to manipulate the objects of concern
for that specific program. These are also high-level
languages.
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Language master, a teacher of languages. Obs.

Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction; discourse; conversation; talk.

Usage: Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken
language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
forms of construction peculiar to a particular
language; dialects are varieties of expression which
spring up in different parts of a country among people
speaking substantially the same language.
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Language Lan"guage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Languaged; p. pr. & vb. n. {Languaging}.]
To communicate by language; to express in language.
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Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. --Fuller.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English