Definition of: talk

(tôk) v.i.
1. To express or exchange thoughts in audible words; communicate by speech; speak or converse.
2. To communicate by means other than speech: to talk with one's fingers.
3. To speak irrelevantly; prate; chatter.
4. To confer; consult.
5. To gossip.
6. To make sounds suggestive of speech.
7. Colloq. To give information; inform.
—v.t.
8. To express in words; utter.
9. To use in speaking; converse in: to talk Spanish.
10. To converse about; discuss: to talk business.
11. To bring to a specified condition or state by talking: to talk one into doing something.
12. To pass or spend, as time, in talking.
—to talk back To answer impudently.
—to talk big Slang To brag; boast.
—to talk down To silence by talking; outtalk.
—to talk down to To speak to (an audience of lower or supposedly lower intelligence than one's own) in simple, obvious words; speak to patronizingly.
—to talk shop To talk about one's work.
—to talk up
1. To discuss, especially so as to promote; praise; extol.
2. Colloq. To speak loudly or boldly.
—noun
1. The act of talking; conversation; speech, especially when informal.
2. Report, rumor: We heard talk of war.
3. That which is talked about; a topic; theme; subject of conversation.
4. A conference for discussion or deliberation; a council.
5. Mere words; verbiage.
6. A language, dialect, or lingo; an argot: baseball talk. See synonyms under CONVERSATION. [ME talken, prob. freq. of talen, OE talian reckon, speak. Related to TELL, TALE.] Synonyms (verb): chat, chatter, converse, discourse, speak. To talk is to utter a succession of connected words, ordinarily with the expectation of being listened to. To speak is to give articulate utterance even to a single word; the officer speaks the word of command, but does not talk it. To chat is ordinarily to utter in a familiar, conversational way; to chatter is to talk in an empty, ceaseless way like a magpie. See SPEAK.