noun
a visual-gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English-speaking parts of Canada. Abbreviation : ASL
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Origin of American Sign Language First recorded in 1960–65
Words nearby American Sign Language American sable ,
American saddle horse ,
American Samoa ,
American senna ,
American shorthair cat ,
American Sign Language ,
American smoke tree ,
American Spanish ,
American Staffordshire terrier ,
American Standard Version ,
American Stock Exchange
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He later said he did not understand what was happening, or even that he was being pulled over — Mistic is deaf and communicates primarily through American Sign Language .
Raci was raised in Chicago by deaf parents, and is well versed in American Sign Language , a skill that makes him suited to this role.
The person was not being taught American Sign Language , nor did the person have access to an interpreter.
Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?
The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.
We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.
I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
And all over the world each language would be taught with the same accent and quantities and idioms—a very desirable thing indeed.
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Medical definitions for American Sign Language
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The primary sign language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada.
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