| 单词 | lingual |
| 释义 | lingual (once / 7234 pages) 1adjn 2adj Something that's lingual has something to do with tongues — it's near a tongue, looks like a tongue, or is caused by a tongue. The lingual side of your teeth is the side closest to your tongue. If you fall and bite your tongue, you suffer a lingual injury, and when you brush your tongue after finishing with your teeth, you could call it a lingual cleaning. Because speech sounds are formed with the help of the tongue, things related to language are also lingual. A skilled lingual learner is good at picking up languages, for example. The Latin root, lingua, unsurprisingly, means "tongue." WORD FAMILYlingual: bilingual, lingually, linguals, sublingual+/bilingual: bilingualism, bilingually, bilinguals/bilingualism: bilingualist/bilingualist: bilingualists/lingua: linguae, lingual, linguas USAGE EXAMPLESLebanon proves both more satisfying and unsettling to O’Neill’s lingual and cultural curiosity. Seattle Times(Jul 01, 2016) Also less visible are porcelain braces and lingual orthodontics, or braces glued to the back of the teeth. Wall Street Journal(Oct 05, 2015) “It’s called cross-lingual arbitrage. If there’s a mine collapse in Spanish, you want to make a trade as quickly as possible.” New York Times(Jun 04, 2015) 1 1adj pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue lingual inflammation the lingual surface of the teeth 2n a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs 2Hyper consonant a speech sound that is not a vowel adj consisting of or related to language lingual diversity Syn|Ant linguistic nonlinguistic not consisting of or related to language |
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