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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Cs
Cs
n : a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at
normal temperatures); the most electropositive and
alkaline metal [syn:
cesium,
caesium,
atomic number 55
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: C
Language
\Lan"guage\, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua
the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See
Tongue, cf.
Lingual.]
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1. 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.
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Note: Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which
usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two
or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to
the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one
person communicates his ideas to another. This is the
primary sense of language, the use of which is to
communicate the thoughts of one person to another
through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are
represented to the eye by letters, marks, or
characters, which form words.
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2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other
instrumentality.
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3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas,
peculiar to a particular nation.
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4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an
individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
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Others for language all their care express. --Pope.
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5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man
express their feelings or their wants.
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6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
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There was . . . language in their very gesture.
--Shak.
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7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
department of knowledge; as, medical language; the
language of chemistry or theology.
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8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. [R.]
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All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
down and worshiped the golden image. --Dan. iii. 7.
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9. Any system of symbols created for the purpose of
communicating ideas, emotions, commands, etc., between
sentient agents.
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10. Specifically: (computers) Any set of symbols and the
rules for combining them which are used to specify to a
computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to
as a
computer lanugage or
programming language; as,
JAVA is a new and flexible high-level language which has
achieved popularity very rapidly.
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Note: Computer languages are classed a low-level if each
instruction specifies only one operation of the
computer, or high-level if each instruction may specify
a complex combination of operations.
Machine language
and
assembly language are low-level computer
languages.
FORTRAN,
COBOL and
C are high-level
computer languages. Other computer languages, such as
JAVA, allow even more complex combinations of low-level
operations to be performed with a single command. Many
programs, such as databases, are supplied with special
languages adapted to manipulate the objects of concern
for that specific program. These are also high-level
languages.
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Language master, a teacher of languages. [Obs.]
Syn: Speech; tongue; idiom; dialect; phraseology; diction;
discourse; conversation; talk.
Usage:
Language,
Speech,
Tongue,
Idiom,
Dialect.
Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended
use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the
language of articulate sounds; tongue is the
Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken
language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the
forms of construction peculiar to a particular
language; dialects are varieties of expression which
spring up in different parts of a country among people
speaking substantially the same language.
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Symbol
\Sym"bol\ (s[i^]m"b[o^]l), n. [L. symbolus, symbolum, Gr.
sy`mbolon a sign by which one knows or infers a thing, from
symba`llein to throw or put together, to compare; sy`n with +
ba`llein to throw: cf. F. symbole. Cf.
Emblem,
Parable.]
1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything
which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by
resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation;
a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage;
the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
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A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it
represents, e. g., an actual part chosen to
represent the whole, or a lower form or species used
as the representative of a higher in the same kind.
--Coleridge.
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2. (Math.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an
operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
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Note: In crystallography, the symbol of a plane is the
numerical expression which defines its position
relatively to the assumed axes.
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3. (Theol.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a
creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
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4. [Gr. ? contributions.] That which is thrown into a common
fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty. [Obs.]
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They do their work in the days of peace . . . and
come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
--Jer. Taylor.
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5. Share; allotment. [Obs.]
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The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all
appear to receive their symbol. --Jer. Taylor.
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6. (Chem.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an
element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin
or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with
a following one; as,
C for carbon,
Na for sodium
(Natrium),
Fe for iron (Ferrum),
Sn for tin (Stannum),
Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names
and symbols under
Element.
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Note: In pure and organic chemistry there are symbols not
only for the elements, but also for their grouping in
formulas, radicals, or residues, as evidenced by their
composition, reactions, synthesis, etc. See the diagram
of
Benzene nucleus, under
Benzene.
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Syn: Emblem; figure; type. See
Emblem.
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C
\C\ (s[=e])
1. C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from
the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the
sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the
latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the
Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C
was the same letter as the Greek [Gamma], [gamma], and
came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the
Ph[oe]nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin
name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French.
Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other
sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L.
acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L.
cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare,
OF. cerchier, E. search.
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Note: See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 221-228.
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2. (Mus.)
(a) The keynote of the normal or
“natural” scale, which
has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also,
the third note of the relative minor scale of the
same.
(b) C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which
each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or
crotchets); for alla breve time it is written ?.
(c) The
“C clef,” a modification of the letter C, placed
on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle
C.
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3. As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for
200, etc.
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C spring, a spring in the form of the letter C.
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higher programming language
\higher programming language\ n.
(Computers)
a computer programming language with an instruction set
allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
language instructions.
Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
instructions into one instruction allows much greater
efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
are now written in some higher programming language,
such as
BASIC,
FORTRAN,
COBOL,
C,
C++, or
JAVA.
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higher programming language
\higher programming language\ n.
(Computers)
a computer programming language with an instruction set
allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
language instructions.
Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
instructions into one instruction allows much greater
efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
are now written in some higher programming language,
such as
BASIC,
FORTRAN,
COBOL,
C,
C++, or
JAVA.
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