Word Finder - talk

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To communicate, usually by means of speech.

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Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.

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To discuss; to talk about.

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That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!

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To speak (a certain language).

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We talk French sometimes.

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(chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

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Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.

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To confess, especially implicating others.

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She can be relied upon not to talk.

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To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

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I am not the one to talk.

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To gossip; to create scandal.

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Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?

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(chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

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That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!

She didn't come here to talk to me.

Let's talk about this.

I just want to talk to you.

What did you want to talk about?

Did you talk to Len?

I'm not going home until you talk to me.

We need to talk to him.

Do they not talk and think faster in the depot than they did in the stage-office?

She wanted to talk to you about something.

You feel betrayed, but you need to go back and talk to him.

They only talk of forgetting them who never knew them.

You should talk to him about it.

You can always talk to me about your troubles, you know.

Do you want to talk about what's bothering you?

I don't want to talk.

He says he wants to talk to you.

After the guests had drunk quite a little of it, they began to talk foolishly and sing loudly; and some of them went to sleep.

But it must not be supposed that I could really talk in this short time.

First I'd talk to you about why you disobeyed.

I want to talk to him anyway.

It astonished me to find how much easier it is to talk than to spell with the fingers, and I discarded the manual alphabet as a medium of communication on my part; but Miss Sullivan and a few friends still use it in speaking to me, for it is more convenient and more rapid than lip-reading.

My teacher told me Tuesday that you wanted to know how I came to wish to talk with my mouth.

But I must talk to her.

Not only did his contemporaries, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite--a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.

We need to talk about something.

He sent you to talk to me?

He didn't want to talk to me.

You can tell me what you see, if you need to talk about it.

I can't talk about it with you, Gabriel.

Isn't there someone we can talk to?

Don't try to talk, darling.

Can you talk to her later?

Can you talk for him?

Mr. Warner and Mr. Burroughs, the great lover of nature, came to see us a few days after, and we had a delightful talk with them.

She wanted to talk to Bordeaux about it, but they were moving so fast that conversation was impossible.

When those occasions arose, Betsy stepped in and tried to talk Howie into the state of relaxation he required.

I've got to go; here talk to Mrs. Samuels.

I didn't bother to talk to Mrs. Samuels.

We'll talk by phone.

Let us talk like gentlemen.

Do you want to talk about it?

They were quiet, watching the siblings talk.

We're gonna have a little talk, then we'll see who gets to kill who.

She was too far to hear them talk.

Want me to talk to Antoine?

Guys, we'll talk later.

When you're well, we'll talk.

You got time to talk, D?

He wasn't like Dustin, who seemed more likely to kill a stranger than talk to one.

Is this how you talk to your father?