язы́к — meaning in English

English meaning

• clapper noun The part inside a bell that swings and strikes it to make it ring.
• 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

язы́к is used for these senses in English:

• clapper An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
• 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) The ability to communicate using words.
• language (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
• language (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
• language (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
• 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).

clapper — full definition

1. noun The part inside a bell that swings and strikes it to make it ring.
2. noun The hinged board on a clapperboard, used at the start of a film take to sync sound and picture.
3. noun Someone who claps or applauds.

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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