Verb: talk tok
- Exchange thoughts; convey ideas
"We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words";
- speak
- Express in speech
"She talks a lot of nonsense";
- speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise [Brit]
- Use language
"the baby talks already";
- speak
- Reveal information
"If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!";
- spill
- Divulge confidential information or secrets
"Be careful — his secretary talks";
- spill the beans [informal], let the cat out of the bag, tattle, blab [informal], peach [informal], babble, sing [informal], babble out, blab out [informal], give the game away
- Deliver a lecture or talk
"She will talk at Rutgers next week";
- lecture
- An exchange of ideas via conversation
"let's have more work and less talk around here";
- talking
- Discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
"his poetry contains much talk about love and anger"
- The act of giving a talk to an audience
"I attended an interesting talk on local history"
- A speech that is open to the public
"he attended a talk on telecommunications";
- lecture, public lecture
- Idle gossip or rumour
"there has been talk about you lately";
- talk of the town
Derived forms: talked, talking, talks
See also: mouth off [informal], speak for
Type of: address, break, bring out, comment, communicate, conversation, convo [Austral, informal], disclose, discourse, discover, discussion, divulge, expose, give away, goss [Brit, informal], gossip, instruct, intercommunicate, lay bare, learn [archaic], lecture, lecturing, let on, let out, reveal, scuttlebutt [N. Amer, informal], speech, teach, tell, treatment, uncover, unwrap
Encyclopedia: Talk, Talk, Talk