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tongue
English
Alternative forms
- tounge (obsolete, now considered a misspelling); tung (obsolete or informal/eye dialect); tong, tonge, toong, toongue, toung, toungue, tunge (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tonge, tunge, tung, from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tung?, from Proto-Germanic *tung? (“tongue”) (compare West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, Danish tunge, Norwegian Bokmål tunge, Swedish tunga), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s.
See also Old Irish tengae, Latin lingua, Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Lithuanian liežùvis, Russian ???? (jazyk), Polish j?zyk, Old Armenian ????? (lezu), Avestan ????????????????????????? (hizuu?), Ashkun ž?, Kamkata-viri di?, Sanskrit ?????? (jihv??). Doublet of langue and lingua.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA(key): /t??/
- (UK, Northern) IPA(key): /t??/
- (UK, Manchester) IPA(key): /t???/, /t???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
tongue (plural tongues)
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- But lering and lurking here and there like ?pies,
The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!
- But lering and lurking here and there like ?pies,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).?
- 1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905, Chapter 4, p. 136,[1]
- However you eat them, tongue and chicken and new bread are very good things, and no one minds being sprinkled a little with soda-water on a really fine hot day.# Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- 1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905, Chapter 4, p. 136,[1]
- (metonymically) A language.
- Synonyms: idiom, language, lingo (colloquial)
- He was speaking in his native tongue.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Ruines of Time” in Complaints, containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie, London: William Ponsonbie,[2]
- [...] that great Towre, which is so much renownd
- For tongues confusion in holie writ,
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 178,[3]
- When I pointed to any thing, she told me the Name of it in her own Tongue, so that in a few Days I was able to call for whatever I had a mind to.
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 1, Chapter 7,[4]
- To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Knopf, 1992, Chapter 23, p. 166,[5]
- Many of them come from distant places and although they speak your tongue they are ignorant of your customs.
- 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 2, p. 99,[6]
- My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.
- (obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 66.18,[7]
- I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 66.18,[7]
- (obsolete) Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 6,[8]
- Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,
- Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London: J. Osborn, Volume 1, Chapter 21, p. 173,[9]
- [...] one of [the prisoners], whom by his tongue I knew to be a Scotchman, lamented most piteously [...]
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 6,[8]
- Manner of speaking, often habitually.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded,
How ?huld a fals lying tung then be rewarded?
- Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded,
- 1715, Daniel Defoe, The Family Instructor, London: Eman. Matthews, Volume 1, Part 2, Dialogue 2, p. 211,[10]
- [...] his wicked way of Living, his prophane Tongue, and his Contempt of Religion, had made him not very well receiv’d [...]
- 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, London: New English Library, 1970, Chapter 8, p. 205,[11]
- I’m afraid I’ve inherited my uncle’s tongue and my mother’s want of tact.
- 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, London: Heinemann, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 8,[12]
- Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul.
- 1972, Hortense Calisher, Herself, New York: Arbor House, Part 4, p. 369,[13]
- [...] Frank Marcus’ Sister George, technically a quite ordinary comedy in the old style [...] was remarkable [...] for the frank tongue of its Lesbians [...]
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (metonymically) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 7, Chapter 3,[14]
- I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Part 3, Chapter 30,[15]
- [...] it was obvious to his listeners that Pittypat, in his mind, was still a plump and charming miss of sixteen who must be sheltered against evil tongues.
- 2007, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 4, p. 592,[16]
- [...] the drunk, who had been a permanent fixture in that bar, changed location and thereafter moved from bar to bar, saying to inquisitive tongues, Too long a stay in one seat tires the buttocks.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 7, Chapter 3,[14]
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- 1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in fifteen books, London: Jacob Tonson, “The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue,” p. 344,[17]
- Parrots imitating Human Tongue
- 1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in fifteen books, London: Jacob Tonson, “The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue,” p. 344,[17]
- (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 2,[18]
- [...] fellows, soldiers, friends,
- Better consider what you have to do
- Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
- Can lift your blood up with persuasion.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, London: R. Sare et al., [19]
- Much Tongue, and much Judgment seldom go together, for Talking and Thinking are Two Quite Differing Faculties,
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 31,[20]
- “[...] this Mr. Grandcourt has wonderful little tongue. Everything must be done dummy-like without his ordering.”
- “Then he’s the more whip, I doubt,” said Mrs. Girdle. “She’s got tongue enough, I warrant her [...]”
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 2,[18]
- (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
- 1621, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Thierry and Theodoret, Act V, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1812, Volume 12, p. 374,[21]
- She was born noble; let that title find her
- A private grave, but neither tongue nor honour!
- 1621, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Thierry and Theodoret, Act V, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1812, Volume 12, p. 374,[21]
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- Synonym: speaking in tongues
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13.8,[22]
- Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- 1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, New York: Random House, Chapter 3, p. 96,[23]
- I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.
- 2006, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, London: Virago, Chapter 2, p. 53,[24]
- [...] her low-heeled shoes had flat fringed tongues to them—the kind of shoes you expected to see on a golf-course, or a Scottish highland, somewhere expensively hearty like that.
- 1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, New York: Random House, Chapter 3, p. 96,[23]
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- 1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, p. 91,[25]
- Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.
- 1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, p. 91,[25]
- The clapper of a bell.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1,[26]
- The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:
- 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, Book 2, p. 156,[27]
- [...] the bell clanged so loud that he could hear the iron tongue clapping against the metal sides each time it swung to and fro [...]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1,[26]
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 3, stanza 13, p. 63,[28]
- Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair
- We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue
- Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 3, stanza 13, p. 63,[28]
- A small sole (type of fish).
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- (music) A reed.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
Translations
See also
- ????
Verb
tongue (third-person singular simple present tongues, present participle tonguing, simple past and past participle tongued)
- (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 4,[29]
- ’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
- Tongue and brain not;
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 4,[29]
- (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 4,[30]
- How might she tongue me!
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 4,[30]
Derived terms
See also
- gloss-
- glossal
- lingual
- linguiform
- linguo-
References
- tongue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tounge
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null
English
Alternative forms
- Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
- ? (mathematics, abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /n?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
null (plural nulls)
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (?), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) Null hypothesis.
Translations
Adjective
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
- Having no validity; "null and void"
- Insignificant.
- 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:
- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
- 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
Antonyms
- antinull
- non-null
Derived terms
- null determiner
- nullary
- nullity
Verb
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
- (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
- To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Related terms
- annul
- nulled work
See also
- nil
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Latin n?llus (“none”).
Numeral
null
- (Luserna) zero
References
- “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Estonian
Numeral
null
- zero
Faroese
Etymology
From Latin nullus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Numeral
null
- zero
Noun
null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)
- (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero
Declension
German
Etymology
From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l/
Numeral
null
- zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)
- (colloquial) zero; no
- Synonym: (überhaupt) kein
Coordinate terms
Adjective
null (not comparable)
- (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)
Declension
Derived terms
- null und nichtig (also in common use)
Further reading
- “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
- “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nul/
Numeral
null
- zero
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null penger - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nullstille
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin nullus
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null pengar - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German null.
Numeral
null
- zero
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