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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.
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Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
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The ability to communicate using words.
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the gift of language
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A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
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legal language; the language of chemistry
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The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
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body language; the language of the eyes
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A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
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A computer language; a machine language.
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Manner of expression.
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The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
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Profanity.