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US
/ˈtɔk/
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[ UK /tˈɔːk/ ]
[ UK /tˈɔːk/ ]
NOUN
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the act of giving a talk to an audience
I attended an interesting talk on local history -
discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of')
his poetry contains much talk about love and anger -
an exchange of ideas via conversation
let's have more work and less talk around here -
a speech that is open to the public
he attended a lecture on telecommunications -
idle gossip or rumor
there has been talk about you lately
VERB
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exchange thoughts; talk with
Actions talk louder than words
We often talk business -
use language
they speak a strange dialect
the baby talks already
the prisoner won't speak -
reveal information
If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!
The former employee spilled all the details -
express in speech
This depressed patient does not verbalize
She talks a lot of nonsense -
deliver a lecture or talk
Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
She will talk at Rutgers next week -
divulge confidential information or secrets
Be careful--his secretary talks
How To Use talk In A Sentence
- Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
- I didn't open my mouth until he talked himself out.
- As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
- The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
- The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
- Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
- Listen to our astronomers talk about the magnitudes and disunites and composition of the stars, and compare with their story that which was written in the astronomy of a few centuries ago. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index
- Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- I am from the Jewish origin and I can talk a lot about Jewish trends including a paranoidal fear that 'someone will get us this time.' OpEdNews - Diary: Black Americans Don't Get It
