verb
If you talk English I might understand
I think we ought to talk before you decide which offer to accept
They talk continuously, mostly about nothing
We were just sitting around talking when Tom suggested we go for a swim
If they give him the third degree, you can be sure he'll talk
I believe that Professor Hale is talking at the County Library tonight
I don't want to talk about football all the time. Can't we talk it over? She talks only of you
He was never in the war - he just talks big
We have been trying to talk him into running in the marathon
We talked over the best way to prepare the advertising proposal
Since the episode with the monkey, she refuses to talk to me. I talked with him yesterday
She has been talking up the book on her radio show
talk down
It's the only thing he's ever done, and you shouldn't talk it down
I resent your talking down to me in that way
noun
Claire delivered a talk on computational linguistics. Every week we have to listen to the same talk about sin
We must have a little talk about your school report
Her behaviour at the wedding was the talk of the town for weeks
There is some talk that you might be leaving
That's just a lot of talk
Can you understand musicians' talk? My parents' talk is peppered with words long obsolete in standard English
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