| language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
| language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
light
light source | any device serving as a source of illumination, he stopped the car and turned off the lights |
| source | a facility where something is available |
| source of illumination | any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation |
ultraviolet lamp
ultraviolet source | any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation |
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 |
source
seed
germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
| 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 |
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 |
| source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
| source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book |
| 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 |
| source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language |
| source | a document (or organization) from which information is obtained, the reporter had two sources for the story |
| source materials | publications from which information is obtained |
| 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 |
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 |
application-oriented language
problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
| assembly language | a low-level programing language, close approximation to machine language |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
computer language
computer-oriented language
machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
| high-level language | a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run |
| jobontrol language | a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system |
| multidimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension |
| object language target language | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
object-oriented programming language
object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |
| one-dimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters |
| stratified language | a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage |