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verb

Talk v. t.

1.

To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

2.

To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

3.

To consume or spend in talking; often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

4.

To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves mad."

To talk over.

(a)

To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan.

(b)

To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.

talk v. i. (past & past part. talked; pres. part. talking)

1.

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. "I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you."

2.

To confer; to reason; to consult. "Let me talk with thee of thy judgments."

3.

To prate; to speak impertinently. (Colloq.)

To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done."

To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. (Colloq.)

noun

Talk n.

1.

The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. "In various talk the instructive hours they passed." "Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses."

2.

Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. "I hear a talk up and down of raising our money."

3.

Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

Synonyms: Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See Conversation.

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... calling the characters of their novels and melodramas Charlemagne, Francis I., or Henry IV., instead of Amadis, Oronte, or saint-Albin. . . From 1831 to the year following we thought it was the genre intime, about which there was much talk. But with all the pains that we took we never could discover what the genre intime was. The 'intimate' novels are just like the others. They are in two volume octavo, with a great deal of margin. . . They have yellow covers and they cost ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... nearer the coast. The women allow their teeth to remain in their beautifully white state, and would be comely but for the custom of inserting pieces of reed into the cartilage of the nose. They seem generally to be in good spirits, and spend their time in everlasting talk, funeral ceremonies, and marriages. This flow of animal spirits must be one reason why they are such an indestructible race. The habitual influence on their minds of the agency of unseen spirits may have a tendency in the same direction, by preserving ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... of them lying about on the dirt floor, but not one could talk or understand a word of the English language. I made signs so as to let them know that I wanted something to eat, but they had nothing, so I had to go without that night. I laid down and pretended to be asleep, but I slept none that night, ...

— Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself • Henry Bibb

... persons together. He had but to listen to Chad at this moment to feel it; for Chad was in the act of remarking to him that they of course both counted on him—he himself and the other earnest person—for cheer and support. It was brave to Strether to hear him talk as if the line of wisdom they had struck out was to make things ravishing to the Pococks. No, if Madame de Vionnet compassed THAT, compassed the ravishment of the Pococks, Madame de Vionnet would be prodigious. ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... twenty or thirty persons, sold to their representatives, who are themselves perhaps sold to the Government: and to put an end to these enormous abuses is called Corporation robbery, and there are some persons wild enough to talk of compensation. This principle of compensation you will consider perhaps, in the following instance, to have been carried as far as sound discretion permits. When I was a young man, the place in England I remember as most notorious for highwaymen ...

— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell

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