Language and Article

language

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: linguistic communication
Language) communication by word of mouth. (
- usage: "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- synonyms: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication
The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number.
- usage: "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
- synonyms: lyric, words
The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication.
- usage: "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
- synonyms: linguistic process
The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
- usage: "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
- synonyms: speech
A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline.
- usage: "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
- synonyms: terminology, nomenclature

(v.t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
(n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
(n.) The expression of ideas by writing or any other instrumentality.
(n.) The forms of speech or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
(n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
(n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
(n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.
(n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
(n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

article

Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.
One of a class of artifacts.
- usage: "an article of clothing"
A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will.
- synonyms: clause
Grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase. (

(n.) Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
(n.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
(v.i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
(n.) A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
(n.) A distinct part.
(n.) Precise point of time; moment.
(n.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
(n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty or the like; a term, condition or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
(n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper or cyclopedia.
(n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
(n.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
(n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary