n. a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.
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n. (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions. The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as
. A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
(Computers) A programming language used to specify the manner, timing, and other requirements of execution of a task or set of tasks submitted for execution, especially in background, on a multitasking computer; a programming language for controlling job{ 7 } execution. Abbreviated JCL. [ PJC ]
v. t.
Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Others for language all their care express. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
There was . . . language in their very gesture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image. Dan. iii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Language master,
a. Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. “ Many-languaged nations.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Computers) a set of instructions{ 3 } in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.
n. A programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers.
n. Any language that can be used to describe another language or system of symbols. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]
The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A form of language for communicating by use of gestures made by the hands, rather than by speech. It includes alphabets made by hand gestures, as well as proper languages formed from signs. Among the latter is the
n. the language into which a text is to be translated; -- correlative of
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