body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
literature | the profession or art of a writer, her place in literature is secure |
language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
English Revolution Glorious Revolution Bloodless Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (-) |
English sparrow house sparrow Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
English lady crab Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
English toy spaniel | British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle |
English foxhound | an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs |
English setter | an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white |
English springer English springer spaniel | a breed having typically a black-and-white coat |
cocker spaniel English cocker spaniel cocker | a small breed with wavy silky hair, originally developed in England |
Old English sheepdog bobtail | large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail, believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain |
bulldog English bulldog | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw, developed originally in England for bull baiting |
English sole lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
English horn cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
English saddle English cavalry saddle | a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn |
language area language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
language speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
language barrier | barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages |
language learning | learning to use a language |
linguistic process language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
English | the discipline that studies the English language and literature |
Orientalism Oriental Studies | the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people |
literature lit | the humanistic study of a body of literature, he took a course in Russian lit |
comparative literature | study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) |
language linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols, he taught foreign languages, the language introduced is standard throughout the text, the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written |
dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
language unit linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
terminology nomenclature language | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline, legal terminology, biological nomenclature, the language of sociology |
written communication written language black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
literature | creative writing of recognized artistic value |
literature | published writings in a particular style on a particular subject, the technical literature, one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature |
Shakespearean sonnet Elizabethan sonnet English sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
Oxford English Dictionary O.E.D. OED | an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles |
New English Bible | a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
sapiential book wisdom book wisdom literature | any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom |
Talmudic literature | (Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings |
Sanskrit literature | Hindu literature written in Sanskrit |
Vedic literature Veda | (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit, traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads |
authoring language | software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |