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talk Audio Help   (tôk) Pronunciation Key
v.   talked, talk·ing, talks

v.   tr.

To articulate (words): The baby is talking sentences now.
To give expression to in words: talk treason.
To speak of or discuss (something): talk music; talk business;
To speak or know how to speak in (an idiom or language): talked French with the flight crew.
To gain, influence, or bring into a specified state by talking: talked me into coming; talked their way out of trouble.
To spend (a period of time) by or as if by talking: talked the evening away.

v. intr.

To converse by means of spoken language: We talked for hours. See Synonyms at speak.
To articulate words: The baby can talk.
To imitate the sounds of human speech: The parrot talks.
To express one's thoughts or emotions by means of spoken language: talked about the pros and cons of the issue.
To convey one's thoughts in a way other than by spoken words: talk with one's hands.
To express one's thoughts in writing: Voltaire talks about London in this book.
To parley or negotiate with someone: Let's talk before continuing to fight.
To spread rumors; gossip: If you do that, people will talk.
To allude to something: Are you talking about last week?
To consult or confer with someone: I talked with the doctor.
To reveal information concerning oneself or others, especially under pressure: Has the prisoner talked?
Informal To be efficacious: Money talks.

An exchange of ideas or opinions; a conversation.
A speech or lecture.
Hearsay, rumor, or speculation: There is talk of bankruptcy.
A subject of conversation: a musical that is the talk of the town.
A conference or negotiation. Often used in the plural: peace talks.
Jargon; slang: prison talk.
Empty speech or unnecessary discussion: much talk and no action.
A particular manner of speech: baby talk; honeyed talk.
Something, such as the sounds of animals, felt to resemble human talk: whale talk.
To persuade: I talked them around to my point of view.
To speak indirectly about: talked around the subject but never got to the point.
To make an impertinent or insolent reply.
To make a belligerent response: heavy guns talking back.
To depreciate: talked down the importance of the move.
To speak with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
To direct and control (the flight of an aircraft during an approach for landing) by radioed instructions either from the ground or a nearby aircraft.
To discuss (a matter) exhaustively: I talked out the problem with a therapist.
To resolve or settle by discussion.
Chiefly British To block (proposed legislation) by filibustering.
To consider thoroughly in conversation; discuss: talked the matter over.
To win (someone) over by persuasion: talked them over to our side.
To speak in favor of; promote: talked the candidate up; talked up the new product.
To speak up in a frank, often insolent manner.

Phrasal Verb(s):
talk around

To persuade: I talked them around to my point of view.
To speak indirectly about: talked around the subject but never got to the point.

talk at
To address orally with no regard for or interest in a reaction or response.
talk back

To make an impertinent or insolent reply.
To make a belligerent response: heavy guns talking back.

talk down

To depreciate: talked down the importance of the move.
To speak with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
To direct and control (the flight of an aircraft during an approach for landing) by radioed instructions either from the ground or a nearby aircraft.

talk out

To discuss (a matter) exhaustively: I talked out the problem with a therapist.
To resolve or settle by discussion.
Chiefly British To block (proposed legislation) by filibustering.

talk over

To consider thoroughly in conversation; discuss: talked the matter over.
To win (someone) over by persuasion: talked them over to our side.

talk up

To speak in favor of; promote: talked the candidate up; talked up the new product.
To speak up in a frank, often insolent manner.

Idiom(s):
talk big Informal
To brag.

Idiom(s):
talk sense
To speak rationally and coherently.

[Middle English talken; see del-² in Indo-European roots.]

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talking
noun
an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here" [syn: talk]

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Talking Rock, GA (town, FIPS 75272) Location: 34.50947 N, 84.50525 W
Population (1990): 62 (25 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30175

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Talking

Talk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked; p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t?lka to interpret, t?lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).]

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

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. --Shak.

2. To confer; to reason; to consult.

Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. --Jer. xii. 1.

3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]

To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done." --Addison.

To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]

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