Talk

/tɔːk/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
2. (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
3. (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
4. (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
5. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
6. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
7. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
8. (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.

Example Sentences

Let's sit down and talk.

Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.

Let’s go to my office and talk. ― I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.

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

Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. […] It was a chance he was offering me, a wonderful, eighteen carat, solid gold chance.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

They sat down to talk business.

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• talks
• talking
• talked
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• talkest
• talkedst
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• taulke

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