n.
linguistic system of communication
1) to use a ~
2) to plan; standardize a ~
3) to learn, master a ~
4) to speak (in) a ~
5) to butcher, murder; enrich; purify a ~
6) (the) spoken; written ~
7) one's native ~
8) a foreign; international, world; national; official; second; universal ~
9) colloquial, informal; formal; idiomatic; literary, standard; nontechnical; substandard; technical ~
10) an ancient; artificial; classical; creolized; dead, extinct; living; modern; natural; sign; trade ~
11) an agglutinative; inflecting; isolating; synthetic; tone ~
12) an object, target; source ~
style of speaking or writing
13) abusive; bad, coarse, crude, dirty, foul, nasty, obscene, offensive, unprintable, vile, vulgar; rough, strong, vituperative ~
14) elegant; everyday, plain, simple; flowery; polite; rich ~
15) children's; diplomatic ~
system of signs, symbols used by a computer
16) a computer, machine, programming ~
misc.
17) ~ acquisition; ~ maintenance