Definition of Talk

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Definition of Talk

Talk

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

To confer; to reason; to consult.

To prate; to speak impertinently.

To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

To cause to be or become by talking.

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.

Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.

Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

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Talk Quotations

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Tony Robbins

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Norman Vincent Peale

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

Talk Translations

talk in Afrikaans is praat, gesels
talk in Danish is tale
talk in Dutch is spreken, praten
talk in Finnish is puhua
talk in French is parlons, parlent, parler, parlez
talk in Latin is sermo, fama
talk in Norwegian is snakke, tale
talk in Portuguese is falar, conversa
talk in Spanish is charla, charlar, conversacion, hablar, discusion
talk in Swedish is tala, samtal, prat, samtala

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