slangs

noun

plural of slang
as in terminologies
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field tends to use too much hacker's slang when talking to coworkers about their computer problems

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  1. dialects
  2. vocabularies
  3. languages
  4. idioms
Noun
  • Sometimes the problem is not translation at all, but meanings that shift between two dialects of the same language.
    — Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
  • Korea and China just demonstrated, in their very different dialects, that friction can be deliberately put back.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of dialects
Noun
  • Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems.
    — Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
  • These systems aim to connect common vocabularies, graphs, data catalogs and enterprise metadata into one coherent semantic layer.
    — Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of vocabularies
Noun
  • Sadhguru is also a bestselling author whose videos stream in 35 languages on social media.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Bible is widely read and loved in spite of the fact that most people don’t speak any of the languages in which it was originally written.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of languages
Noun
  • On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • The film’s look is inspired by ink wash paintings and wood blocks, moving fluidly between different visual idioms.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
Definition of idioms
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