1. • noun - an exchange of ideas via conversation
   • noun - discussion
   • noun - the act of giving a talk to an audience
   • noun - a speech that is open to the public
   • noun - idle gossip or rumor
   • verb - exchange thoughts
   • verb - express in speech
   • verb - use language
   • verb - reveal information
   • verb - divulge confidential information or secrets
   • verb - deliver a lecture or talk
2. • To articulate (words): The baby is talking sentences now.
   • To give expression to in words: talk treason.
   • To speak of or discuss (something): talk music; talk business.
   • To speak or know how to speak in (an idiom or a language): talked French with the flight crew.
   • To gain, influence, or bring into a specified state by talking: talked me into coming; talked their way out of trouble.
   • To spend (a period of time) by or as if by talking: talked the evening away.
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   • To articulate words: The baby can talk.
   • To imitate the sounds of human speech: The parrot talks.
   • To express one’s thoughts or emotions by means of spoken language: talked about the pros and cons of the issue.
   • To convey one’s thoughts in a way other than by spoken words: talk with one’s hands.
   • To express one’s thoughts in writing: Voltaire talks about London in this book.
   • To parley or negotiate with someone: Let’s talk before continuing to fight.
   • To spread rumors; gossip: If you do that, people will talk.
   • To consult or confer with someone: I talked with the doctor.
   • To be efficacious: Money talks.
   • An exchange of ideas or opinions; a conversation.
   • A speech or lecture.
   • Hearsay, rumor, or speculation: There is talk of bankruptcy.
   • A subject of conversation: a musical that is the talk of the town.
   • Often talks.
   • Jargon; slang: prison talk.
   • Empty speech or unnecessary discussion: much talk and no action.
   • A particular manner of speech: baby talk; honeyed talk.
   • Something, such as the sounds of animals, felt to resemble human talk: whale talk.
   • To persuade: I talked them around to my point of view.
   • To speak indirectly about something: talked around the subject but never got to the point.
   • To make an impertinent reply: a saucy child who talked back.
   • To make a belligerent response: heavy guns talking back.
   • To depreciate: talked down the importance of the move.
   • To address someone with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
   • To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
   • To direct and control (the flight of an aircraft during an approach for landing) by radioed instructions either from the ground or a nearby aircraft.
   • To discuss (a matter) exhaustively: I talked out the problem with a therapist.
   • To resolve or settle by discussion.
   • To block (proposed legislation) by filibustering.
   • To consider thoroughly in conversation; discuss: talked the matter over.
   • To win (someone) over by persuasion: talked them over to our side.
   • To speak in favor of; promote: talked the candidate up; talked up the new product.
   • To brag.
3. • v - to communicate by speaking

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