Meanings (ES + gloss)
idioma • lengua
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.
Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
lenguaje
The ability to communicate using words.
It is wholly out of the power of language to convey any idea of the blissful enjoyment of obtaining water, after an almost total want of it, during eight and forty hours, in the sc…
the gift of language
jerga • lenguaje
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between;…
legal language; the language of chemistry
lenguaje
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
body language; the language of the eyes
lenguaje
A computer language; a machine language.
In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.
lenguaje
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
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