Meaning of talk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To communicate, usually by means of speech.
   intransitive
2. To spend (a period of time) by talking: We talked the night away.
3. To discuss; to talk about.
   informal, transitive
4. To address (someone) orally with no regard for or interest in a reaction or response.
5. To speak (a certain language).
   transitive
6. To make an impertinent or insolent reply.
7. Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
   informal, transitive
8. To help (someone) do something by giving instructions as the task is being done.
9. To confess, especially implicating others.
   intransitive, slang
10. To brag.
11. To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
    intransitive
12. To speak rationally and coherently.
13. To gossip; to create scandal.
    intransitive
14. To speak knowledgeably about something, especially something that one claims or implies one can do well.
15. To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
    transitive
16. To utter an impertinent rejoinder:talk up.
17. To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
    informal
18. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant:belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, run down, slight.
19. To succeed in causing (a person) to act in a certain way:argue into, bring, bring around (or round), convince, get, induce, persuade, prevail on (or upon), sell (on).

Equivalents

Examples

“Let's sit down and talk.”

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

“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.”

“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. […] It was a chance he was offering me, a wonderful, eighteen carat, solid gold chance.”

“Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.”

“Let’s go to my office and talk. ― I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.”

““[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.”

“They sat down to talk business.”

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

“We talk French sometimes.”

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

“We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.”

“Suppose he talks?”

“She can be relied upon not to talk.”

“They tried to make me talk.”

“I am not the one to talk.”

“She is a fine one to talk.”

“You should talk.”

“Look who's talking.”

“People will talk.”

“Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?”

“Remember that Christ and Christianity may not always be the same thing; e.g. Jerry Falwell talks "Christianity" but practices hatred […] which is diametrically opposed to what Jesus really taught.”

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

“"So, are you going to give up all this good living and easy money and come fly for the Russians?" "Hello no. I told you that yesterday." "That was your wallet talking. The shooting has started. Now I appeal to your patriotism, your manhood, your sense of duty."”

CEFR level