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SIGN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Language expressed by visible hand gestures
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sign language" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Meronyms (parts of "sign language"):
sign (a gesture that is part of a sign language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sign language"):
finger spelling; fingerspelling (an alphabet of manual signs)
American sign language; ASL (the sign language used in the United States)
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