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US
/ˈtəŋ/
]
[ UK /tˈʌŋ/ ]
[ UK /tˈʌŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a manner of speaking
he spoke with a thick tongue
she has a glib tongue - the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
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any long thin projection that is transient
rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
tongues of flame licked at the walls - a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
VERB
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
How To Use tongue In A Sentence
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- The lymphatic vessels of the tongue may be divided into four groups: (1) apical, from the tip of the tongue to the suprahyoid glands and principal gland of the tongue; (2) lateral, from the margin of the tonguesome of these pierce the Mylohyoideus to end in the submaxillary glands, others pass down on the Hyoglossus to the superior deep cervical glands; (3) basal, from the region of the vallate papillæ to the superior deep cervical glands; and (4) median, a few of which perforate the Mylohyoideus to reach the submaxillary glands, while the majority turn around the posterior border of the muscle to enter the superior deep cervical glands. VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
- I find it hard to get my tongue round these Polish names.
- For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
- If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi']. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
- It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
- A mummy's pinkie turned out to be pilose asiabell, which she said was good for breathing, provided it was cooked with astragalus (those were the white sections of tongue depressor). Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
- The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- All tongues shall troll you
- The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.