talk /(ta̤k)/

talk

v. i.

imp. & p. p. talked; p. pr. & vb. n. talking

  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.
  2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
    Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.
    — Jer. xii. 1.
  3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]

Phrases & Compounds
To talk of
to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra.
To talk to
to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.

Talk

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.

Phrases & Compounds
To talk over
To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan.

Talk

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.
    In various talk the instructive hours they passed.
    Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses.
  2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
    I hear a talk up and down of raising our money.
  3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.