langue — meaning in English

English meaning

• conk verb To hit someone, especially on the head.
• language noun A system of words and grammar used by a community to communicate.
• tongue noun The flexible muscular organ in the mouth used for tasting, moving food, and forming speech sounds.

Senses

langue is used for these senses in English:

• conk The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
• language (countable) 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.
• language (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
• language (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
• tongue (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
• tongue In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

conk — full definition

1. verb To hit someone, especially on the head.
2. noun A hairstyle in which tightly curled hair is chemically straightened.
3. verb To stop working or fail suddenly, especially a machine or engine.

language — full definition

1. noun A system of words and grammar used by a community to communicate.
2. noun The particular style, wording, or tone used in speech or writing.
3. noun A system of symbols and rules used to write computer programs.
4. noun Strong or offensive words; swearing.

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