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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
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investigation
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.Morphologically investigate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?v?st???e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
investigation (countable and uncountable, plural investigations)
- The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination
- The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.
- Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.
Related terms
- investigate
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.v?s.ti.?a.sj??/
Noun
investigation f (plural investigations)
- investigation, examination
Further reading
- “investigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
investigation (plural investigationes)
- investigation
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