What does sign-language mean?

Definitions for sign-language
sign-lan·guage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sign language, signingadjective

    language expressed by visible hand gestures

  2. gestural, sign(a), signed, sign-language(a)adjective

    used of the language of the deaf

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  1. sign-language

    Sign language is a form of communication that uses manual gestures, body movements, and facial expressions, instead of verbal language or sound. It is often used by the deaf community and others who are not able to communicate using spoken language. Each sign language has its own grammar and syntax, much like spoken languages, leading to several different sign languages being used worldwide.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sign-language in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sign-language in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sign-language in a Sentence

  1. Carol Padden:

    That's the funny part -- the two of them together, we shouldn't be taking sign language so seriously.

  2. Matt Maxey:

    I can have more of an impact going the unconventional route with someone like Chance and go into the areas nobody deaf has been able to get to before, it all leads to something that improves the community. You see sign language in a lot more places than ever before. People are becoming more curious and at the same time more aware of what is going on with the deaf community.

  3. John McCain:

    Maybe it was through some medium that I'm not familiar with. Maybe bouncing it off the ozone layer, for all I know, there's a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn't the ozone layer that he bounced it off of. Maybe it was through hand telegraph, maybe sign language, who knows?

  4. Barbara Raimondo:

    They really don’t get the training in medical school to appropriately advise parents on this, parents think the pediatricians know, but pediatricians are lacking in sign language and in raising a deaf child. So this is a problem.

  5. Linguist Donna Jo Napoli:

    Children should be surrounded by sign language as much as possible as soon as the audiological status is determined, if the child gets a cochlear implant and does well with it, fantastic. Then the child is bi-lingual.

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