different between commerce vs talk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m.?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.?s/, (dated) /k??m??s/

Noun

commerce (countable and uncountable, plural commerces)

1. (business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.

3. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1648, Walter Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies

     these perillous commerces of our love

4. An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Synonyms

• trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication
• See also Thesaurus:copulation

Derived terms

• chamber of commerce
• commercial

Translations

Verb

commerce (third-person singular simple present commerces, present participle commercing, simple past and past participle commerced)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To carry on trade; to traffic.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

     Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To hold intercourse; to commune.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Walking to the Mail

     commercing with himself

   • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns

     Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

Further reading

• commerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commerce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French commerce, borrowed from Latin commercium (“commerce, trade”), from com- (“together”) + merx (“good, wares, merchandise”); see merchant, mercenary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m??s/

Noun

commerce m (plural commerces)

1. commerce, trade
2. store, shop, trader

Derived terms

• commercial

See also

• négoce

Further reading

• “commerce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French commerce (“commerce”).

Noun

commerce

1. business, commerce

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?k/
  • (w:cot–caught merger, w:northern cities vowel shift) IPA^(key): /t?k/, /tä?k/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /to?k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophones: torc, torq, torque (non-rhotic accents only), tock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-Germanic *talk?n? (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *tal?n? (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell +? -k. Cognate with Scots talk (“to talk”), Low German taalken (“to talk”). Related also to Danish tale (“to talk, speak”), Swedish tala (“to talk, speak, say, chatter”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”), Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value; argue; tell, relate; impute, assign”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telk?- (“to talk”), which is the source of loquacious.

Alternative forms

• taulke (obsolete)

Verb

talk (third-person singular simple present talks, present participle talking, simple past and past participle talked)

1. (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Let’s go to my office and talk. ? I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.

2. (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.

3. (transitive) To speak (a certain language).

4. (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

5. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.

6. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

7. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

8. (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

Conjugation

See also: talkest, talketh

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talk

Coordinate terms

• listen

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).

Noun

talk (countable and uncountable, plural talks)

1. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.

2. A lecture.

3. (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.

4. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.

6. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
   1. A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.

      Have you had the talk with Jay yet?

   2. (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
      • 2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World ?ISBN:

        Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […]

      • 2016, Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge ?ISBN:

        The Talk
        All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police.

      • 2016, Stuart Scott, Larry Platt, Every Day I Fight ?ISBN, page 36:

        Now, I was a black man in the South, and my folks had had “the talk” with me. No, not the one about the birds and bees. This one is about the black man and the police.

7. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.

8. (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

   The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talk
• (meeting): conference, debate, discussion, meeting

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Pages starting with “talk”.

Danish

Etymology

Via French talc or German Talk, from Persian ???? (talq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /talk/, [t?al???]

Noun

talk c (singular definite talken, not used in plural form)

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

Related terms

• talkum

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

talk m (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch talch, from Old Dutch *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz. More at English tallow.

Noun

talk c (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of talg (“tallow”)

Anagrams

• kalt

Polish

Noun

talk m inan

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

Declension

Swedish

Noun

talk c

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

Declension