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talk
[tawk]
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry. |
| 2. | to consult or confer: Talk with your adviser. |
| 3. | to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip. |
| 4. | to chatter or prate. |
| 5. | to employ speech; perform the act of speaking: to talk very softly; to talk into a microphone. |
| 6. | to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.: The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare. |
| 7. | to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information: After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked. |
| 8. | to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals. |
| 9. | Computers. to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal. |
| 10. | to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech. |
–verb (used with object)
| 11. | to express in words; utter: to talk sense. |
| 12. | to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing: They talk French together for practice. |
| 13. | to discuss: to talk politics. |
| 14. | Informal. (used only in progressive tenses) to focus on; signify or mean; talk about: This isn't a question of a few hundred dollars—we're talking serious money. |
| 15. | to bring, put, drive, influence, etc., by talk: to talk a person to sleep; to talk a person into doing something. |
–noun
—Verb phrases| 16. | the act of talking; speech; conversation, esp. of a familiar or informal kind. |
| 17. | an informal speech or lecture. |
| 18. | a conference or negotiating session: peace talks. |
| 19. | report or rumor; gossip: There is a lot of talk going around about her. |
| 20. | a subject or occasion of talking, esp. of gossip: Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood. |
| 21. | mere empty speech: That's just a lot of talk. |
| 22. | a way of talking: a halting, lisping talk. |
| 23. | language, dialect, or lingo. |
| 24. | signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism. |
| 25. | talk around, to bring (someone) over to one's way of thinking; persuade: She sounded adamant over the phone, but I may still be able to talk her around. |
| 26. | talk at,
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| 27. | talk away, to spend or consume (time) in talking: We talked away the tedious hours in the hospital. |
| 28. | talk back, to reply to a command, request, etc., in a rude or disrespectful manner: Her father never allowed them to talk back. |
| 29. | talk down,
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| 30. | talk down to, to speak condescendingly to; patronize: Children dislike adults who talk down to them. |
| 31. | talk of, to debate as a possibility; discuss: The two companies have been talking of a merger. |
| 32. | talk out,
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| 33. | talk over,
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| 34. | talk up,
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| 35. | talk big, Informal. to speak boastingly; brag: He always talked big, but never amounted to anything. |
| 36. | talk someone's head or ear off, to bore or weary someone by excessive talk; talk incessantly: All I wanted was a chance to read my book, but my seatmate talked my ear off. |
| 37. | talk to death,
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Origin:
1175–1225; ME talk(i)en to converse, speak, deriv. (with -k suffix) of tale speech, discourse, tale; c. Fris (E dial.) talken
1175–1225; ME talk(i)en to converse, speak, deriv. (with -k suffix) of tale speech, discourse, tale; c. Fris (E dial.) talken

Related forms:
talk⋅a⋅ble, adjective
talk⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
talker, noun
Synonyms:
1. See speak. 4, 20. prattle. 34. discourse. 17. colloquy, dialogue, parley, confabulation.
1. See speak. 4, 20. prattle. 34. discourse. 17. colloquy, dialogue, parley, confabulation.
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