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proper noun
- The English language, a language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, the United States of America, and other parts of the world.
- is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
- One"s ability to employ the English language.
- My coworker has pretty good for a non-native speaker.
- Specific language or wording; a text or statements in speech, whether a translation or otherwise.
- The technical details are correct, but the is not very clear.
- The English-language term or expression for something.
- What"s the English for "í peu près"?
- (collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
- The Scottish and have a history of conflict.
verb (English, es)
- (archaic) To render into English.
adjective
- English-language; of or pertaining to the English language.
- Of or pertaining to England or its people.
- Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
- an ton
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noun
- The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or �, preceded by delta (�, δ) and followed by zeta (�, ζ).
- (context, phonetics) In International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, the phonetic symbol that represents the w:open-mid front unrounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel. Represented in SAMPA as E.
- (context, mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (context, computing, colloquial) A negligible effect.
- Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that"s .
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noun
- The name of an international auxiliary language designed by w:L. L. Zamenhof, L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.
- (metaphorical) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media. Example: "The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency."
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noun (etymologies)
- The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
- An account of the origin and historical development of a word.
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noun
- A particular way of phrase, phrasing an idea.
- A colloquialism or idiom.
- The "break a leg!" should not be taken literally.
- A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
- (math) A set of symbols denoting values and operations performed on them.
- (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
- (context, programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
- The process of expressing milk
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adjective
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
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adjective
- longer in length or extension; elongated
- stretched out or pulled out; expanded
- lasting longer; protracted
- having a large scope or range; extensive
- (context, of a typeface) wider than usual
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noun - (linguistics) the movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence
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