Talk
Definition of Talk
v. i. | 1. | To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. - Shak. | | 2. | To confer; to reason; to consult. | | 3. | To prate; to speak impertinently. | v. t. | 1. | To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French. | | 2. | To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics. | | 3. | To consume or spend in talking; - often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening. | | 4. | To cause to be or become by talking. | n. | 1. | The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. | | 2. | Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. | | 3. | Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. |
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