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NOUN | 1 | talk, talking | An exchange of ideas via conversation |
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2 | talk | (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') discussion | |
3 | talk | The act of giving a talk to an audience | |
4 | talk, lecture, public lecture | A speech that is open to the public | |
5 | talk, talk of the town | Idle gossip or rumor | |
VERB | 1 | talk, speak | Exchange thoughts |
2 | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech | |
3 | talk, speak | Use language | |
4 | talk, spill | Reveal information | |
5 | talk, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out | Divulge confidential information or secrets | |
6 | talk, lecture | Deliver a lecture or talk |
Sounds | tao'k |
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Rhymes | airlock, balk, boardwalk, and 22 more rhymes in aok at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | An exchange of ideas via conversation. |
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Examples | "let's have more work and less talk around here" |
Synonyms | talking |
Narrower | cant, pious platitude; dialogue, dialog, duologue; heart-to-heart; shmooze; shop talk; wind, idle words, jazz, nothingness; yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle |
Broader | conversation |
Verbs | talk; talk; talk; talk |
Meaning | (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') discussion. |
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Examples | "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger" |
Broader | discussion, treatment, discourse |
Verbs | talk; talk |
Meaning | The act of giving a talk to an audience. |
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Examples | "I attended an interesting talk on local history" |
Narrower | chalk talk |
Broader | lecture, lecturing |
Meaning | A speech that is open to the public. |
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Synonyms | lecture, public lecture |
Broader | address, speech |
Verbs | talk |
Meaning | Idle gossip or rumor. |
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Examples | "there has been talk about you lately" |
Synonyms | talk of the town |
Broader | gossip, comment, scuttlebutt |
Verbs | talk |
Meaning | Exchange thoughts. Talk with. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s to somebody |
Model | Sam and Sue talk |
Examples | "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" |
Synonyms | speak |
Narrower | continue, go on, carry on, proceed; discourse, dissertate; pontificate; orate; talk down; spiel; dogmatize, dogmatise; cheek; level; talk turkey; monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise; converse, discourse; chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash; dish the dirt, gossip; rap |
Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
Nouns | talk; talk, talking |
Meaning | Express in speech. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "She talks a lot of nonsense" |
Synonyms | speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise |
Entailed by | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say; declaim, recite |
Narrower | read; vocalize, vocalise, phonate; troll; begin; lip off, shoot one's mouth off; shout; whisper; peep; speak up; snap, snarl; enthuse; speak in tongues; swallow; verbalize, verbalise; whiff; talk of, talk about; blubber, blubber out; drone, drone on; bumble, stutter, stammer, falter; rasp; blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate; tone, inflect, modulate; deliver, present; generalize, generalise; chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble; chatter; yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away; open up; snivel, whine; murmur; mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate; slur; bark; bay; rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave; hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate; cackle; babble; tone, chant, intone; gulp; sing |
Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
Similar to | verbalize, verbalise |
Nouns | talker; talk; talk |
Meaning | Use language. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Model | Sam and Sue talk |
Examples | "the baby talks already" |
Synonyms | speak |
Entailed by | address, speak |
Narrower | run on; smatter; slang |
Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
Nouns | talker; talk |
Meaning | Reveal information. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!" |
Synonyms | spill |
Broader | tell |
Similar to | spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out |
Nouns | talk |
Meaning | Divulge confidential information or secrets. "Be careful--his secretary talks". |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out |
Broader | disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out |
Contrary | keep quiet, shut one's mouth, keep one's mouth shut |
Similar to | spill, talk |
Nouns | talk |
Meaning | Deliver a lecture or talk. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Something ----s to somebody; Somebody ----s on something |
Model | Sam and Sue talk |
Examples | "She will talk at Rutgers next week" |
Synonyms | lecture |
Narrower | preach, prophesy |
Broader | teach, learn, instruct |
Nouns | talk; talker |