| body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| markup language | a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| body language | communication via the movements or attitudes of the body |
| artificial language | a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
| Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
programming language
programing language | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
| algebraic language | an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions |
| algorithmic language | an artificial language designed to express algorithms |