Word Finder - tongues

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The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

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This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−

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cold tongue with mustard

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(metonym) A language.

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He was speaking in his native tongue.

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• idiom
• language
• lingo

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Speakers of a language, collectively.

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Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).

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Manner of speaking, often habitually.

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(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

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The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

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Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

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Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

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Honourable discourse; eulogy.

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(often in the plural) Glossolalia.

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• speaking in tongues

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In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

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Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

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A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

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A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

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The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

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The clapper of a bell.

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An individual point of flame from a fire.

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A small sole (type of fish).

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A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

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A reed.

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A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

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On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

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Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

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To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

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To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

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a soil horizon that tongues into clay

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To join by means of a tongue and groove.

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to tongue boards together

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To talk; to prate.

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To speak; to utter.

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To chide; to scold.

Occasionally curly tongues of flame rose from under the roofs of the houses.

Tongues of flame here and there broke through that cloud.

In 1804 the Bible, or some part of it, had been printed in about fifty-five different tongues.

He early developed a gift for languages, becoming familiar not only with Latin and Greek but also with Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Turkish and other Eastern tongues.

So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.

The tragic death of the crown prince Rudolph hushed for a time the strife of tongues, and in the meantime Tisza brought into the ministry Ders6 Szilagyi, the most powerful debater in the House, and Sandor Wekerle, whose solid talents had hitherto been hidden beneath the bushel of an under-secretaryship. But in 1890, during the debates on the Kossuth Repatriation Bill, the attacks on the premier were renewed, and on the 13th of March he placed his resignation in the king's hands.

When he lighted the oil a hundred tongues of flame shot up, and the effect was really imposing.

But these wars were fought for the most part by alien armies; the points at issue were decided beyond the Alps; the gains accrued to royal families whose names were unpronounceable by southern tongues.

Meanwhile he supported himself by teaching on a very small scale, but his progress was such that at sixteen he had a good knowledge of Hungarian, Latin, French and German, and was rapidly acquiring English and the Scandinavian languages, and also Russian, Servian and other Slavonic tongues.

The utterance of these speech elements in definite order constitutes the roots and sentences of the various tongues.

On the other hand the multitude of native American languages suggested that the migration to America took place after the building of the tower of Babel, and Siguenza arrived at the curiously definite result that the Mexicans were descended from Naphtuhim, son of Mizraim and grandson of Noah, who left Egypt for Mexico shortly after the confusion of tongues.

To use sections and divisions in the text as Pagnine in his translation useth, and for the verity of the Hebrew to follow the said Pagnine and Munster specially, and generally others learned in the tongues.

Du Bellay maintained that the French language as it was then constituted was too poor to serve as a medium for the higher forms of poetry, but he contended that by proper cultivation it might be brought on a level with the classical tongues.

There is a considerable trade in " lunch tongues."

This combination of eternal punishment with restless wandering has attracted the imagination of innumerable writers in almost all European tongues.

For fifty years the main efforts of Louis were directed to defending his kingdom from the inroads of his Slavonic neighbors, and his detachment from the rest of the Empire necessitated by these constant engagements towards the east, gradually gave both him and his subjects a distinctive character, which was displayed and emphasized when, in ratifying an alliance with his half-brother, the West-Frankish king, Charles the Bald, the oath was sworn in different tongues.

The Norman princes protected all the races, creeds and tongues of the island, Greek, Saracen and Jew.

The kings understood Greek and Arabic, and their deeds and works were commemorated in both tongues.

He spoke all its tongues; he protected, as far as circumstances would allow, all its races.

The tale, true or false, that Frenchmen and Provencals were known from the natives by being unable to frame the Italian sound of c shows how thoroughly the Lombard tongue had overcome the other tongues of the island.

Each tribe has a different ju-ju, and each speaks a separate language or dialect, the most widely diffused tongues being the Ibo and Efik, which have been reduced to writing.

The first portion of his Histoire de la Reformation, which was devoted to the earlier period of the movement in Germany, gave him at once a foremost place amongst modern French ecclesiastical historians, and was translated into most European tongues.

This was written between the years 1285 and 1295; but books of travel in the modern tongues had already begun to make their appearance.

Thomas Wilson, in the epistle prefixed to his translation of the Olynthiacs of Demosthenes (1570), has a long and most interesting eulogy of Cheke; and Thomas Nash, in To the Gentlemen Students, prefixed to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), calls him "the Exchequer of eloquence, Sir Ihon Cheke, a man of men, supernaturally traded in all tongues."

The leaf-cutter bees (Megachile) - which differ from Andrena and Halictus and agree with Osmia, Apis and Bombus in having elongate tongues - cut neat circular disks from leaves, using them for lining the cells of their underground nests.

He spent his time mainly in Germany, visiting Italy, and increasing his acquaintance with the French, German, Italian and Spanish tongues.

Maclean and others, mapped the coast and huge glacier tongues as far east as long.

They are all called " Digger Indians " indiscriminately, although divided by a multiplicity of tongues.

The Dusun language, it is interesting to note, presents very curious grammatical complications and refinements such as are not to be found among the tongues spoken by any of the other peoples of the Malayan Archipelago or the mainland of south-eastern Asia.

Several hundred weekly publications are printed in English and foreign tongues, to minister to the needs of the Catholic population.

His contemporary St Bonaventura complained publicly that he himself and his fellow-friars were often compelled to hold their tongues about the evil clergy; partly because, even if one were expelled, another equally worthless would probably take his place, but "perhaps principally lest, if the people altogether lost faith in the clergy, heretics should arise and draw the people to themselves as sheep that have no shepherd, and make heretics of them, boasting that, as it were by our own testimony, the clergy were so vile that none need obey them or care for their teaching."

The great god Ahuramazda, whom king and people alike acknowledge, has given them dominion over this earth afar, over many peoples and tongues; and the consciousness is strong in them that they are masters of the world.

The original native name of the race which spoke these tongues was Aryan.

The other ancient tongues and dialects of s family are known only by name; we read of peculiar idioms Sogdiana, Zabulistan, Herat, &c. It is doubtful whether the guages of the Scythians, the Lycians and the Lydians, of which dly anything remains, were Iranian or not.

The peculiar greatness and value of both Juvenal and Tacitus is that they did not shut their eyes to the evil through which they had lived, but deeply resented it - the one with a vehement and burning passion, like the " saeva indignatio " of Swift, the other with perhaps even deeper but more restrained emotions of mingled scorn and sorrow, like the scorn and sorrow of Milton when " fallen on evil days and evil tongues."

Under the noble influence of Ferencz Kazinczy he became acquainted with the chief masterpieces of European literature in their original tongues.

On the walls of the grand marble staircase, which rises to the full height of the building, Kaulbach's cyclus of stereochromic pictures is painted, representing the six great epochs of human progress, from the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel and the dispersion of the nations to the Reformation.

Meanwhile his fame as a poet in the Latin and the vulgar tongues steadily increased, until, when the first draughts of the Africa began to circulate about the year 1339, it became manifest that no one had a better right to the laurel crown than Petrarch.

For all that known dialects prove to the contrary, on the one hand, there may have been one primitive language, from which the descendant languages have varied so widely, that neither their words nor their formation now indicate their unity in long past ages, while, on the other hand, the primitive tongues of mankind may have been numerous, and the extreme unlikeness of such languages as Basque, Chinese, Peruvian, Hottentot and Sanskrit may arise from absolute independence of origin.

She surprised her generation by being able to speak the many tongues of her subjects.

But to all such precautions should be added the use of concrete or brickwork tongues running longitudinally at the bottom of the trench, such as those shown at a higher level in fig.

Then Paul himself lays hands on them and the Holy Ghost comes upon them, so that they speak with tongues and prophecy.

Among these ruins Klements found several very interesting MSS., some of them written in the language of the Uighurs, an ancient Turkish race, and others in tongues unknown.

In the end, thanks to an unusually powerful memory and determined energy, he acquired a knowledge of seven or eight tongues besides his own, including ancient and modern Greek.

Many of the Lapps are able to speak one or even two of the neighbouring tongues.

The Gorgons are represented as winged creatures, having the form of young women; their hair consists of snakes; they are round-faced, flat-nosed, with tongues lolling out and large projecting teeth.

Celts, Germans, speakers of Sanskrit and Zend, Ldtins and Greeks, all prove by their languages that their tongues may be traced to one family of speech.

Vizcaya (Biscay)a tongue which is utterly unlike Celtic or Italian or any Indo-Germanic languagesuggests that the Iberians may have been an older people than the Celts and alien from them in race, though the attempts hitherto made to connect Basque with ancient traces of strange tongues in the Basque lands have not yielded clear results.

Persecution usually begets hysteria in its victims; and the more extravagant members of the party were far advanced on the road which leads to apocalyptic prophecy and "speaking with tongues."

The word is common to all the Romance tongues, appearing in more or less modified forms of the Latin fornax.