Talk

English Meaning

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

1. To articulate (words): The baby is talking sentences now.
2. To give expression to in words: talk treason.
3. To speak of or discuss (something): talk music; talk business;
4. To speak or know how to speak in (an idiom or language): talked French with the flight crew.
5. To gain, influence, or bring into a specified state by talking: talked me into coming; talked their way out of trouble.
6. To spend (a period of time) by or as if by talking: talked the evening away.
7. To converse by means of spoken language: We talked for hours. See Synonyms at speak.
8. To articulate words: The baby can talk.
9. To imitate the sounds of human speech: The parrot talks.
10. To express one's thoughts or emotions by means of spoken language: talked about the pros and cons of the issue.
11. To convey one's thoughts in a way other than by spoken words: talk with one's hands.
12. To express one's thoughts in writing: Voltaire talks about London in this book.
13. To parley or negotiate with someone: Let's talk before continuing to fight.
14. To spread rumors; gossip: If you do that, people will talk.
15. To allude to something: Are you talking about last week?
16. To consult or confer with someone: I talked with the doctor.
17. To reveal information concerning oneself or others, especially under pressure: Has the prisoner talked?
18. Informal To be efficacious: Money talks.
19. An exchange of ideas or opinions; a conversation.
20. A speech or lecture.
21. Hearsay, rumor, or speculation: There is talk of bankruptcy.
22. A subject of conversation: a musical that is the talk of the town.
23. A conference or negotiation. Often used in the plural: peace talks.
24. Jargon; slang: prison talk.
25. Empty speech or unnecessary discussion: much talk and no action.
26. A particular manner of speech: baby talk; honeyed talk.
27. Something, such as the sounds of animals, felt to resemble human talk: whale talk.
28. talk around To persuade: I talked them around to my point of view.
29. talk around To speak indirectly about: talked around the subject but never got to the point.
30. talk at To address orally with no regard for or interest in a reaction or response.
31. talk back To make an impertinent or insolent reply.
32. talk back To make a belligerent response: heavy guns talking back.
33. talk down To depreciate: talked down the importance of the move.
34. talk down To speak with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
35. talk down To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
36. talk down 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.
37. talk out To discuss (a matter) exhaustively: I talked out the problem with a therapist.
38. talk out To resolve or settle by discussion.
39. talk out Chiefly British To block (proposed legislation) by filibustering.
40. talk over To consider thoroughly in conversation; discuss: talked the matter over.
41. talk over To win (someone) over by persuasion: talked them over to our side.
42. talk up To speak in favor of; promote: talked the candidate up; talked up the new product.
43. talk up To speak up in a frank, often insolent manner.
44. talk big Informal To brag.
45. talk sense To speak rationally and coherently.