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Meanings of lingua in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tongue"
Examples for "tongue"
1
Engywook's tongue went right to work: What have you seen and done?
2
It's very tongue-in-cheek social comment but it's still social comment, he said.
3
The rest of the conversation was carried on in the same tongue.
4
Studies had found that tip-of-the-tongue experiences are more common among older people.
5
He claims, tongue-in-cheek, that he could patent such a product next year.
1
My heart beat in my temples like the clapper of an alarm-bell.
2
Those two men understood each other as the clapper understands the bell.
3
The Indian bell-ringer rings them by a rope fastened to each clapper.
4
Brock called on him, started the video camera, clapped his imaginary clapper.
5
Its weight is thirty-two thousand pounds-theclapper alone weighing a thousand pounds.
1
The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.
Usage of lingua in English
1
He speaks the language of Mota, the lingua franca here, you know.
2
LANGUAGES: The official language is Portuguese but Portuguese-based creole is the lingua franca.
3
Every 10 minutes or so, the signs change from one lingua to the other.
4
Arabic was, for a time, the lingua franca of science.
5
They are very much the lingua franca of evidence-based medicine.
6
Hence it has received the name of "la lingua di tré regni."
7
The last word was spoken in the lingua franca, and instantly obeyed by the physician.
8
Why are their dialects not the lingua franca of an entire generation of young people?
9
It is the lingua franca of Northern Ireland conversations.
10
She will come! he cried in the Frankish jargon-thelingua franca of the African littoral.
11
From the perspective of its use as a global lingua franca, she has got a point.
12
And despite Mandarin being the lingua franca, there are more than 200 dialects spoken across China.
13
In excellent Federation lingua franca it addressed its audience in a tone that was unapologetically severe.
14
They speak the lingua Geral, and sometimes Portuguese.
15
For "real" therefore, we must substitute ordinary, or lingua communis.
16
Ah, there was our poor bella lingua again.
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