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Definition of 'TALK'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) talk
to communicate or exchange ideas or information by speaking.

2.  talk
to consult or confer:
Talk with your adviser.

3.  talk
to spread a rumor; gossip.

4.  talk
to chatter or prate.

5.  talk
to use speech; perform the act of speaking.

6.  talk
to deliver a speech or lecture:
The professor talked on modern physics.

7.  talk
to give confidential or incriminating information:
The spy talked during interrogation.

8.  talk
to communicate by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals.

9.  talk
to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech.

10. (v.t.) talk
to express in words; utter:
to talk sense.

11.  talk
to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing:
They talk French together.

12.  talk
to discuss:
to talk politics.

13.  talk
to drive or influence by talk:
to talk a person to sleep.

14.  talk
talk around,

15.  talk
to avoid discussion of.

16.  talk
talk down,

17.  talk
to subdue by talking, as by argument.

18.  talk
to speak condescendingly.

19.  talk
Also, talk in. to give landing instructions to (a pilot) by radio.

20.  talk
talk out,

21.  talk
to try to clarify or resolve by discussion.

22.  talk
talk out of, to dissuade, as from doing, using, etc.

23.  talk
talk over,

24.  talk
to consider; discuss.

25.  talk
talk up,

26.  talk
to promote with enthusiastic description.

27.  talk
to speak openly or distinctly.

28. (n.) talk
the act of talking; speech.

29.  talk
an informal speech or lecture.

30.  talk
a conference or negotiating session:
peace talks.

31.  talk
rumor; gossip.

32.  talk
empty speech:
all talk and no results.

33.  talk
a way of talking:
quiet talk.

34.  talk
dialect or lingo.

35.  talk
sounds suggestive of speech.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME talk(i)en, der. of tale speech, discourse, tale ; c. Fris (E dial.) talken)

Definition of 'TALK'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) talk, talking
an exchange of ideas via conversation
"let's have more work and less talk around here"

2. (noun) talk
discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of')
"his poetry contains much talk about love and anger"

3. (noun) talk
the act of giving a talk to an audience
"I attended an interesting talk on local history"

4. (noun) lecture, public lecture, talk
a speech that is open to the public
"he attended a lecture on telecommunications"

5. (verb) talk, talk of the town
idle gossip or rumor
"there has been talk about you lately"

6. (verb) talk, speak
exchange thoughts; talk with
"We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"

7. (verb) talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
express in speech
"She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

8. (verb) speak, talk
use language
"the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"

9. (verb) spill, talk
reveal information
"If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"

10. (verb) spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
divulge confidential information or secrets
"Be careful--his secretary talks"

11. (verb) lecture, talk
deliver a lecture or talk
"She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

Definition of 'TALK'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) talk
to use words to communicate
The baby can't talk yet.; We were talking about our vacation.; Who's that guy she's talking to?; to talk on the phone

2.  talk
to discuss sth
You two need to talk.; I decided to talk to my boss.; Let's not talk business tonight.

3.  talk
I'm/we're talking sth
used to give an impressive or surprising example
She earns a lot. We're talking millions.; Talk about lazy - she didn't even offer to help.

4.  talk
talk tough
to say sth to show how determined you are to do or change sth
The governor has been talking tough about crime.

5.  talk
you're (a fine) one to talk
used to say that sb does the same thing that they are criticizing sb else for doing
"Why is he always late?" "You're one to talk - you just got here a minute ago!"

6. (noun) talk
a discussion
I had a talk with my daughter about sex.

7.  talk
a speech
Professor Winston is giving a talk on 18th century England.

8.  talk
words sb uses without actions to support them
Unless you do something, it's just talk.

9.  talk
information that may not be true; = rumors
There was talk in the office about a merger.

Definition of 'TALK'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) TALK
to utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts

2. (noun) TALK
to confer; to reason; to consult

3. (noun) TALK
to prate; to speak impertinently

4. (noun) TALK
the act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more

5. (noun) TALK
report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war

6. (noun) TALK
subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town

7. (verb) TALK
to speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French

8. (verb) TALK
to deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics

9. (verb) TALK
to consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening

10. (verb) TALK
to cause to be or become by talking

Definitions of 'TALK'

The Roycroft Dictionary

TALK
To open and close the mouth rapidly while the bellows in the throat pumps out the gas in the brain.

Translation of 'TALK'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to speak; to have a conversation or discussion We talked about it for hours; My parrot can talk (= imitate human speech).
Afrikaans: praat	Arabic: يَتَكَلَّم	Bulgarian: говоря
Brazilian: falar	Czech: mluvit; rozmlouvat	German: reden
Danish: tale	Greek: μιλώ	Spanish: hablar
Estonian: rääkima	Farsi: صحبت کردن	Finnish: puhua
French: parler	Hebrew: לְדַבֵּר	Hindi: बातचीत करना
Croatian: govoriti	Hungarian: beszél(get)	Indonesian: berbicara
Icelandic: tala	Italian: parlare	Japanese: 話す
Korean: 말하다	Lithuanian: kalbėti(s), šnekėti(s)	Latvian: runāt; []runāties
Malay: bercakap	Dutch: spreken	Norwegian: snakke, prate, diskutere
Polish: rozmawiać, mówić	Portuguese: falar	Romanian: a vorbi
Russian: говорить	Slovak: rozprávať (sa), hovoriť	Slovenian: govoriti
Serbian: pričati	Swedish: tala, prata	Thai: พูดคุย
Turkish: konuşmak	Taiwanese: 談話	Ukrainian: говорити
Urdu: بات کرنا	Vietnamese: nói chuyện	Chinese: 谈话
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