different between talk vs rhapsodize

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

English

Alternative forms

• rhapsodise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

rhapsody +? -ize.

Verb

rhapsodize (third-person singular simple present rhapsodizes, present participle rhapsodizing, simple past and past participle rhapsodized)

1. (intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).

   Synonym: rave

   • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Chapter 22,^[1]

     The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodising; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.

   • 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel, Chapter 12,^[2]

     How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach?

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, “Phases of Fiction” in Leonard Woolf (ed.), Granite and Rainbow: Essays by Virginia Woolf, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958, pp. 107-108,

     The Mysteries of Udolpho have been so much laughed at as the type of Gothic absurdity that it is difficult to come at the book with a fresh eye. We come, expecting to ridicule. Then, when we find beauty, as we do, we go to the other extreme and rhapsodize.

   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, New York: Scholastic, 2003, Chapter 9, p. 170,

     Ron was rhapsodizing about his new broom to anybody who would listen.

2. (transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
   • 1896, Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, New York: Appleton, Chapter 5,^[3]

     “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”

   • 1923, Crosbie Garstin, The Owl’s House, New York: A.L. Burt, Chapter 22,^[4]

     “Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […] ”

3. (transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
   • 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, Volume 6, Chapter 21, p. 90,^[5]

     The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]

   • 1982, Seamus Heaney, “Joyce’s Poetry” in Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002, p. 423,^[6]

     The great poetry of the opening chapter of Ulysses […] amplifies and rhapsodizes the world with an unlooked-for accuracy and transport.

4. (intransitive) To perform a rhapsody.
   • 1824, Lady Morgan, The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, London: Henry Colburn, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 33, footnote,^[7]

     […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.

   • 1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Passing of the Poet” in Literary Lapses, London: John Lane, p. 187,^[8]

     Should one gather statistics of the enormous production of poetry some sixty or seventy years ago, they would scarcely appear credible. Journals and magazines teemed with it. Editors openly countenanced it. Even the daily press affected it. Love sighed in home-made stanzas. Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.

Anagrams

• aphidozers