lingo
11lingo — [n] dialect spoken by a group argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, patois, patter, slang, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary; concept 276 Ant. standard …
12lingo — ► NOUN (pl. lingos or lingoes) informal, often humorous 1) a foreign language. 2) the jargon of a particular subject or group. ORIGIN probably from Latin lingua tongue …
13Lingo — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lingo (animal). Lingo est le langage de script qui accompagne le logiciel Macromedia Director. L auteur du Lingo est le développeur John Henry Thompson. La lingo a été enrichi par de nombreuses sociétés ayant… …
14Lingo — Dieser Artikel erläutert die Programmiersprache Lingo; zum Indexierungssystem lingo siehe Lingo (Indexierungssystem). Lingo ist die Programmiersprache der Authoringsoftware Macromedia Director, jetzt Adobe Director. Lingo war in früheren… …
15lingo — [[t]lɪ̱ŋgoʊ[/t]] lingos 1) N COUNT: usu sing People sometimes refer to a foreign language, especially one that they do not speak or understand, as a lingo. [INFORMAL] I don t speak the lingo. 2) N UNCOUNT: also a N, usu with supp A lingo is a… …
16lingo — lin|go [ˈlıŋgəu US gou] n [C usually singular] informal [Date: 1600 1700; : Provençal; Origin: lingo tongue or Portuguese lingoa, both from Latin lingua] 1.) a language, especially a foreign one ▪ I d like to go to Greece, but I don t speak the… …
17lingo — lingo1 /ling goh/, n., pl. lingoes. 1. the language and speech, esp. the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual: gamblers lingo. 2. language or speech, esp. if strange or foreign. [1650 60; appar. alter. of LINGUA… …
18lingo — lin|go [ lıŋgou ] noun singular INFORMAL 1. ) a language, especially one other than your own: We picked up a bit of the lingo on vacation. 2. ) the words that are mainly used by people who do a particular activity or job: the usual bureaucratic… …
19lingo — n a language, jargon or way of speaking. The word, which often indicates puzzle ment, amusement or xenophobia on the part of the speaker, obviously derives ultimately from the Latin word lingua, meaning tongue and language. The question as to… …
20lingo — noun (countable usually singular) informal 1 a language, especially a foreign one: I d like to go to Greece, but I don t speak the lingo. 2 words used only by a group of people who do a particular job or activity: the estate agent s baffling… …