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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.
- 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
- He did not seem overcome with pleasure at the idea of Philippa's visit, and she felt a little disappointed, but she had been interested in his talk; and as she went back to the house with Miss Mervyn, her mind was so full of it, that she felt obliged to tell her all about Tuvvy and Dennis, and her own plans for Becky's benefit. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes