A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols. Speech communication by word of mouth
in language it means PIE
Written that way usually means Astronomical Unit and is the average distance from the Sun to the Earth. About 93 million miles.
It means to use other words instead of your words to express what you are saying. For Example: Its raining cats and dogs. This is figurative language because it expresses that it is raining very hard.
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