Talk

Noun

 * 1) A conversation or discussion.
 * 2) A lecture.
 * 3) (After the) A major topic of social discussion.
 * 4) (Without an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.

Verb

 * 1)  To communicate, usually by means of speech.
 * 2)  To discuss.
 * 3)  Confess, especially implicating others.
 * 4) Criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
 * 5) Gossip.

Adjectives for Talk
buoyant; hearty; revolutionary; comprehending; fanciful; heartening; ineffable; passionate; furtive; prodigious; vainglorious; blasphemous; sneering; obscene; scandalous; heated; vigorous; unpleasant; willful; casual; yelling; loud; arduous; tedious; fragmentary; elliptical; rambling; everlasting; brilliant; indeterminate; bawdy; unmeaning; customary; spontaneous; vile; unmannerly; imperious; assuming; endless;racy; confounded; solemn; droning; abundant; convincing; delightful; straight; impersonal; unusual; wanton; desultory; masculine; common; sprightly; buzzing; provincial; vain; loose; boyish; stimulating; inflammatory; inane; frivolous; vague; enjoyable; wicked; malignant; stammering; pious; discursive; alluring; facile; empty; silly; heart-searching; interesting; poetic; half-whispered; tumultuous; eloquent; bantering; wearisome; spasmodic; confidential.

Verbs for Talk
cease—; compose—; deliver—; distinguish—; hush—; muffle—; mute—; muzzle—; silence—; stifle—; still—; substantiate—; tone down—; —allures; —annoys; —baits; —charms; —convinces; —distracts; —disturbs; —diverts; —edifies; —elucidates; — enlightens; —induces; —interests; —rumors.

Adverbs for Talk
volubly; amicably; articulately; indiscreetly; blithely; shrewdly; casually; incoherently; pathetically; vivaciously; informally; interminably; mysteriously; unceasingly; eloquently; affectedly; ramblingly; briskly; indefinitely; garrulously; animatedly; fluently; tediously;

Thesaurus
ramble on, rap, rap session, rapping, rat, rattle, rattle on, reading, reason, reason about, reason the point, recital, recitation, reel off, report, retail gossip, reveal a secret, review, rhetoric, roorback, rubbish, rumble, rumor, run on, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, scuttlebutt, sermon, set speech, set task, shoot the breeze, sift, sing, skull session, soapbox, speak, speak to, speak with, speaking, speech, speechification, speechify, speeching, spiel, spill, spill the beans, sponsor, spout, spout off, squeal, stool, story, study, stuff and nonsense, stump, support, sway, take the floor, take the stump, take up, tale, talebearing, taletelling, talk about, talk away, talk big, talk down, talk into, talk nonsense, talk of, talk on, talk over, talkathon, talkfest, talking, task, tattle, tattle on, teaching, tell idle tales, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, tete-a-tete, thresh out, tirade, tittle-tattle, tongue, town talk, traffic with, treat, trialogue, tripe, twaddle, twattle, unconfirmed report, usage, use, use language, use of words, usus loquendi, utter, utterance, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vaunt, ventilate, verbalization, verbalize, verbiage, visit, vocalize, voice, waffle, wag the tongue, way of speaking, whisper, wordage, wording, words, yak, yakkety-yak, yakking, yam, yarn, accent, accents, address, advertise, after-dinner speech, air, allocution, analyze, argot, assignment, babble, back-fence gossip, balderdash, balls, ballyhoo, bat the breeze, be in connection, be in contact, be indiscreet, be unguarded, belittle, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blather, blether, blurt, blurt out, bluster, boast, bosh, brag, bring round, bruit, bull, bull session, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, buzz, cackle, canard, cant, canvass, causerie, chalk talk, chat, chatter, chin, chinfest, chitchat, choice of words, clack, claptrap, clatter, colloque, colloquialize, colloquy, come clean, comment, comment upon, commerce with, common talk, commune with, communicate, communicate with, composition, confab, confabulate, confabulation, confer, conference, confess, consider, consult, consultation, controvert, conversation, converse, converse with, convince, crap, criticize, crow, cry, deal with, debate, declaim, declamation, deliberate, deliberate upon, deliberation, deliver an address, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, dialect, dialogue, diatribe, diction, diminish, discourse, discourse about, discuss, discussion, disparage, disquisition, dissertation, dither, dope, duologue, elocution, eulogy, exaggerate, examine, exchange, exchange views, exercise, exhortation, exposition, expression, filibuster, flap, flying rumor, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, formulation, funeral oration, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, give a talk, give away, go into, go on, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, grammar, grapevine, grass, groundless rumor, gush, handle, harangue, have dealings with, have intercourse, have truck with, haver, hearsay, hogwash, hokum, hold communication, homework, homily, hooey, hortatory address, hot air, hype, idea afloat, idiom, idle talk, inaugural, inaugural address, info, inform, inform on, information, instruction, interchange, intercommunicate, invective, investigate, jabber, jargon, jargonize, jaw, jeremiad, knock, knock around, language, langue, latrine rumor, leak, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, let drop, let fall, let slip, lingo, lingua, locution, malarkey, manner of speaking, meeting, minimize, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, mouth, natter, negotiation, news, news stirring, newsmongering, nonsense, object lesson, on-dit, oral communication, oration, palaver, pan, parlance, parley, parole, pass under review, patois, patronize, patter, peach, pep talk, peroration, personal usage, persuade, philippic, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, piece of gossip, piffle, pitch, platform, plug, poppycock, pour forth, powwow, prate, prattle, prattling, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, presentation, promote, prose, public speech, publicize, push, put down, question-and-answer session,

Etymology
talken, talkien 'to speak with, converse', frequentative of talen, talien 'to speak, recount', from  talian 'to suppose, reckon', from  'to count, reckon' (compare Old Frisian talia:, German zählen 'to count', Danish tale: 'to speak'), from *talō(n) 'talk'. More at tale. Frequentative -k suffix similar to hark from hear. Akin to talken 'to chat',  Talk 'talk'.

Derived terms

 * all talk
 * baby talk
 * betalk
 * bytalk
 * chalk talk/chalk and talk
 * cross talk/crosstalk
 * dirty talk
 * happy talk
 * foretalk
 * girl talk
 * idle talk
 * intalk
 * man talk
 * outtalk
 * overtalk
 * peace talk
 * pep talk
 * pillow talk
 * self-talk
 * shop talk
 * sleep talk


 * small talk
 * table talk
 * talkback
 * talk battery
 * talk bomb
 * talkie
 * talk is cheap
 * talk of the town
 * talk page
 * talk radio
 * talk show
 * talk the talk
 * undertalk
 * uptalk
 * walk and talk
 * walk the talk
 * walkie-talkie


 * bad-talk
 * double-talk
 * fast-talk
 * look who's talking
 * now you're talking
 * outtalk
 * sleep-talk
 * sweet-talk
 * talk a blue streak
 * talk a mile a minute
 * talk about
 * talk around
 * talkative
 * talk back
 * talk cock
 * talk dirty


 * talk down
 * talker
 * talk in circles
 * talk into
 * talk like an apothecary
 * talk of
 * talk of the devil
 * talk one's way out of
 * talk out of turn
 * talk over
 * talk sense
 * talk shit/talk shite
 * talk shop


 * talk smack
 * talk someone's ear off
 * talk someone under the table
 * talk the talk
 * talk through one's hand
 * talk to the hand
 * talk trash
 * talk turkey
 * talk up
 * talky
 * trash-talk
 * you can talk

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:talk

Coordinate terms

 * listen

Noun

 * Bulgarian: (1)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 談話, 谈话, 會話, 会话
 * Danish:, drøftelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: συνομιλία, συζήτηση, διάλογος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: pembicaraan (1,2,3), perbincangan (1)
 * Interlingua: conversation (1)
 * Irish:
 * Italian: conversazione
 * Japanese: 話し,
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Macedonian: разговор (razgovor) (1)
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: گفت و گو, صحبت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: conversa, conversação (1)
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: разговор, говор, конверзација
 * Roman: razgovor, govor, konverzacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: కబుర్లు (kaburlu) (1)
 * West Frisian:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: puheenaihe
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Indonesian: pembicaraan (1,2,3), percakapan (2)
 * Italian: argomento


 * Japanese: 話し
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: temat
 * Portuguese: assunto (2)
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చర్చనీయాంశం (charchaneeyaaMSaM) (2)


 * Bulgarian: (3)
 * Danish: foredrag, forelæsning
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: pembicaraan (1,2,3), kuliah (3)
 * Interlingua: discurso (3)
 * Italian: discorso
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: foredrag, forelesning


 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: (3)
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: предавање
 * Roman: predavanje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: föreläsning
 * Telugu: ప్రసంగం (prasaMgaM) (3)

Verb

 * Arabic: تكلم, تحدث
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: danışmaq
 * Belarusian: размаўляць, гаварыць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: parlar, conversar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 說話, 说话, 説, 说, 講, 讲
 * Danish: tale, snakke, fortælle
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: μιλώ, συνομιλώ
 * Hindi: बात करना, बोलना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tala, mæla ávarpa
 * Ido: parolar
 * Indonesian: bicara, ngomong, bincang
 * Interlingua: parlar, conversar
 * Irish: bí ag
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 말하다
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:, loquor, for
 * Latvian: runāt
 * Lithuanian: kalbėti
 * Maori: kōrero
 * Norwegian:, preke
 * Persian:, صحبت کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:,   ,  , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: говорити
 * Roman: govoriti
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: prata, tala, snacka
 * Tamil: Sol,Paesu
 * Telugu: మాట్లాడు (maaTlaaDu)
 * Thai: (pôot),  (kui),  (sŏn-tá-naa),  (glàao)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: розмовляти, ,
 * Urdu: بات کرنا, بولنا
 * Vietnamese: nói, nói chuyện, nói được


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: επικοινωνώ


 * Japanese: 意思疎通する
 * Latin: loquor, for

Noun

 * 1) talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Etymology
Via talc: or  Talk:, from   (talq).

Related terms

 * talkum

Noun

 * 1) talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Anagrams

 * kalt

Noun

 * 1) talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Noun

 * 1) talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)