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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.  Antonym: keep quiet.
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



... Newall wigwam, best friend, best woman ever saw, was pale face woman, who told him of Great Chief, Big Spirit, and great hunting ground way back sun, where old Mag, (mother) was now. Pale face woman gave him book, and would talk Great Spirit and tell him look after Paul and make ...
— Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days • Thomas Barlow Smith

... and will interrupt you, Captain Renouf," I broke in, despite his efforts to talk me down. "What you assert is simply ridiculous, sir. No man in his senses would ever mistake my imperfect French for Breton or any other dialect than that of an Englishman. What your motive may be for endeavouring to persuade yourself that I am a fellow- countryman of your own I cannot guess; but ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood

... 'It's her death blow,' then I squeezed Luigi's hand to make him look at me, and I asked him what it was Mrs. Googe's was sick of, for I must go and tell mother—and he looked at Mr. Emlie and he nodded and said, 'It's town talk already—it's in the papers.' And then Luigi told me that Mr. Champney Googe had been stealing, Aileen!—and if he got caught he'd have to go to prison—then father sent me over home for mother and told me to run, and I've ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... to carry herself," said the manager, another evening. He began to think that he should like to talk with her. If he hadn't made it a rule to have nothing to do with the members of the chorus, he would have ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... later they left the room. Morrison locked the door and they went out into the street. They did not talk much, merely commonplace phrases that did not bear upon the subject. Both were occupied with their own thoughts, and strange thoughts they must have been. They leisurely strolled to a store of sporting outfits, bought a revolver ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various


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