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Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example: Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.

Definition: The ability to communicate using words.

Example: the gift of language

Definition: A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

Example: legal language;   the language of chemistry

Definition: The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.

Example: body language;   the language of the eyes

Definition: A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.

Definition: A computer language; a machine language.

Definition: Manner of expression.

Definition: The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

Example: The language he used to talk to me was obscene.

Definition: Profanity.

Phonetic: "[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To communicate by language; to express in language.