Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a lingual manner; as relates to language.
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- adverb In a
lingual manner, relating tolanguage orlinguistics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to language
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Examples
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When their lingually-challenged guide Parry Shen crashes their boat onto a rock, they must abandon ship and head into the Lousiana swamp.
Hatchet (2007) 2010
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So when young people come back able to communicate bi-or multi-lingually, they are opening future diplomatic, economic and cultural doors.
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Raised by deaf-mute parents, Red speaks with the precision of a three-year-old who lingually prefers the third person.
Archive 2006-12-17 Miss Snark 2006
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Raised by deaf-mute parents, Red speaks with the precision of a three-year-old who lingually prefers the third person.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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And I want this whole thing to work multi-lingually.
Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture Cameron Sinclair 2006
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And I want this whole thing to work multi-lingually.
Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture Cameron Sinclair 2006
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Raised by deaf-mute parents, Red speaks with the precision of a three-year-old who lingually prefers the third person.
HH Com 347 Miss Snark 2006
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And I want this whole thing to work multi-lingually.
Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture Cameron Sinclair 2006
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There was a German nurse for the children, and the whole atmosphere of the household presently became lingually Teutonic.
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Active and Reactive state -- the action put forth by the agent, and yet terminating upon himself -- which is expressed lingually by what is appropriately called in Greek the Middle Voice (Sanscrit, _At mane pada_), and in our modern Grammars, as the French, The Reflective Verb.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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