talk

Definition for talk

noun as in speech, address to group

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allocution, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, monologue, oration, peroration, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel

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chalk talk, prelection

noun as in gossip

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conversation, report, rumor

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allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, rot, rubbish, rumble, scuttlebutt, trash, yarn

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hot air, idle talk, small talk, tête-à-tête

noun as in discussion

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argument, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, interview, meeting, negotiation, seminar, symposium, visit

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colloquy, conclave, confabulation, earful, encounter, huddle, palaver, parlance, parley, spiel, ventilation

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eyeball-to-eyeball, interlocution, straight talk

noun as in communication with language

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speech

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argot, chatter, dialect, discourse, jargon, lingo, locution, parlance, patois, slang, speaking, utterance, verbalization, vocalization, words

verb as in produce words; inform

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chat, communicate, describe, express, reveal, say, sing, speak, tell

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articulate, babble, broach, chant, chatter, confess, converse, divulge, drawl, drone, gab, gabble, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, rhapsodize, soliloquize, spout, squeak, squeal, utter, verbalize, voice, yak

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comment on, flap one's tongue, give voice to, run on, spill the beans, talk one's leg off, tell all, ventriloquize

verb as in discuss with another

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argue, confer, consult, contact, exchange, huddle, interact, interview, negotiate, reach out, visit

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canvass, chew, collogue, commune, confabulate, confide, deliberate, dialogue, groupthink, interface, network, palaver, parley, reason, relate, touch, vent

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be in contact, carry on conversation, engage in conversation, go into a huddle, have a meet, hold discussion, join in conversation, keep in touch, thrash out, touch base

verb as in address group

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pitch, speak

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accost, discourse, harangue, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, sermonize, spiel, spout, stump, sway

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deliver a speech, give a talk, give speech, hold forth, prelect

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“And as I’m talking to you, I was just told four or five new ones arriving. We can’t keep up.”

From Los Angeles Times

The president talks about Musk not like a valued colleague or even a friend.

From Salon

Then we can talk about specific groups’ concerns — but here we’ve got to avoid any hint of the condescension that so often seeps into our message.

From Salon

"The government needs to stop talking about everyone who is on disability benefits as if they are all the same because they are not," said another.

From BBC

Tshisekedi has since renegotiated this, but the lack of transparency in those talks has been criticised.

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