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Talk   /tɔk/   Listen
Talk

verb
(past & past part. talked; pres. part. talking)
1.
Exchange thoughts; talk with.  Synonym: speak.  "Actions talk louder than words"
2.
Express in speech.  Synonyms: mouth, speak, utter, verbalise, verbalize.  "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
3.
Use language.  Synonym: speak.  "The prisoner won't speak" , "They speak a strange dialect"
4.
Reveal information.  Synonym: spill.  "The former employee spilled all the details"
5.
Divulge confidential information or secrets.  Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle.
6.
Deliver a lecture or talk.  Synonym: lecture.  "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
noun
1.
An exchange of ideas via conversation.  Synonym: talking.
2.
Discussion; ('talk about' is a less formal alternative for 'discussion of').
3.
The act of giving a talk to an audience.
4.
A speech that is open to the public.  Synonyms: lecture, public lecture.
5.
Idle gossip or rumor.  Synonym: talk of the town.



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"Talk" Quotes from Famous Books



... feelings, for example, were already revealing themselves in an impatient play of her fan that made her father presently lean forward to suggest: "If we men are to talk shop, is it necessary to keep Bessy in ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... figures, but should rather blush. The reader should bear in mind, that the prisoners are let at both places on contract, ours at ninety cents per day, and those in Massachusetts for over one dollar, so that her prison managers enjoy an advantage over ours for rolling up gains. And when we talk of gaining more than twice as much as she, we have reason to fear that those hearing us will say, that too many of those dollars were ground out of the flesh, and blood, and sinews, and life even of the prisoners,—not a ...
— The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences • Hosea Quinby
... the concertina belonged to—a tall fresh-complexioned young fella he was, an' very mild of manner—turned out to be a sort o' leader o' the party; an' he was the first to talk any sense. 'Th-thank you,' he said. 'They told us ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... world may talk about sin and virtue, and make most admirable and subtle distinctions. We know very well in our hearts that pluck and courage are the great twin virtues, and that cowardice is the fundamental sin. The perfectly plucky ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... proposed then and there to perform with her; and as, since passing Ballan the girl had thought of nothing else; as her desire had been carefully sustained, and augmented by the warm movements of the animal, she replied harshly to the vicar, "if you talk thus I will get down." Then the good vicar continued his gentle requests so well that on reaching the wood of Azay the girl wished to get down, and the priest got down there too, for it was not across a horse that this discussion could ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac


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