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talk
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)
- (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.
- Let’s go to my office and talk. ? I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (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)
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A lecture.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Have you had the talk with Jay yet?
- (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.
- The Talk
- 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.
- 2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World ?ISBN:
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (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)
- talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
Related terms
- talkum
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
talk m (uncountable)
- 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)
- Alternative form of talg (“tallow”)
Anagrams
- kalt
Polish
Noun
talk m inan
- talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
Declension
Swedish
Noun
talk c
- talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)
Declension
talk From the web:
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- what talks a lot
- what talk about with a girl
- what talk show was sherri shepherd on
argument
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????j?m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /????j?m?nt/, /-?ju-/, /-?j?-/
- Hyphenation: ar?gu?ment
Etymology 1
From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin arg?mentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”), from arguere + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is the present active infinitive of argu? (“to argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false”), either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er?- (“silver, white; glittering”), or from Hittite [script needed] (arkuw?(i)-, “to make a plea, state one’s case”). The English word is analysable as argue +? -ment.
Noun
argument (countable and uncountable, plural arguments)
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- (countable) An abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, or poem; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dispute
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, mathematics)
- The independent variable of a function.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable, programming)
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- Synonyms: actual argument, passed parameter
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable, obsolete)
- A matter in question; a business in hand.
- The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
- A matter in question; a business in hand.
- (uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with argument: valid, invalid, correct, incorrect, right, wrong, strong, weak, convincing, unconvincing, conclusive, inconclusive, fallacious, simple, straightforward, inductive, deductive, logical, illogical, absurd, specious, flawed.
- (parameter at a function call): some authors regard the use of argument to mean “formal parameter” to be imprecise, preferring that argument be used to refer only to the value that is used to instantiate the parameter at runtime, while parameter refers only to the name in the function definition that will be instantiated.
Alternative forms
- arguement (obsolete)
Meronyms
- (logic): conclusion, premise, proposition
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
The obsolete senses are derived from Middle English argumenten (“to argue, discuss; to consider, reflect”), from Old French argumenter (“to argue”), from Latin arg?ment?r?, the present active infinitive of arg?mentor (“to adduce arguments or proof, prove, reason; to adduce (something) as argument or proof; to conclude”), from arg?mentum (“argument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)”) (see further at etymology 1) +? -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The current sense is derived from the noun.
Verb
argument (third-person singular simple present arguments, present participle argumenting, simple past and past participle argumented)
- (intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof.
Conjugation
References
Further reading
- argument on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- argument of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- argument (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- argument (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- argument (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- argument in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- argument in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin arg?mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /??.?u?ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?r.?u?men/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a?.?u?ment/
Noun
argument m (plural arguments)
- argument (reason)
- (computing) argument
- plot, storyline
- (mathematics) argument
- (grammar) argument
Related terms
- argumentar
Further reading
- “argument” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “argument” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “argument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “argument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ar?um?nt]
Noun
argument m
- argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
Declension
Derived terms
- pseudoargument
- protiargument
Related terms
- argumentace
See also
- parametr m
Further reading
- argument in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- argument in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Noun
argument n (singular definite argumentet, plural indefinite argumenter)
- argument
Declension
Related terms
- argumentere
References
- “argument” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arg?mentum, from argu? (“prove, argue”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?.?y.m??/
Noun
argument m (plural arguments)
- argument
- (grammar) argument of a verb, phrase syntactically connected to a verb (object and subject)
Derived terms
- argumentaire
- argumenter
- argumentation
Related terms
- arguer
See also
- (grammar): valence
Further reading
- “argument” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin argumentum
Noun
argument n (definite singular argumentet, indefinite plural argument or argumenter, definite plural argumenta or argumentene)
- argument
Related terms
- argumentere
- argumentasjon
References
- “argument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin argumentum
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r???m?nt/
Noun
argument n (definite singular argumentet, indefinite plural argument, definite plural argumenta)
- argument
Related terms
- argumentasjon
References
- “argument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin arg?mentum
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar??u.m?nt/
Noun
argument m inan
- point, argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
- (philosophy, logic, mathematics, programming) argument
Declension
Synonyms
- uzasadnienie, racja, pod?o?e, podstawa, przes?anka, powód,
- dowód, operand, parametr
Related terms
- argumentacja
Further reading
- argument in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French argument, from Latin argumentum.
Noun
argument n (plural argumente)
- argument
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar??ment/
- Hyphenation: ar?gu?ment
Noun
argùment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- argument (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
- (philosophy, logic, mathematics, programming) argument
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
argument n
- an argument supporting a stance
- (mathematics) an argument; an independent variable passed to a function
- (programming) an argument; a variable passed to a function
Declension
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- what argument was the king making
- what argument is this poster making
- what argument is frisch making
- what argument best responds to citizens
- what is king's main argument
- what is the basis for king's argument
- which king was the mad king
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