talking

talking
    n 1: an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more
         work and less talk around here" [syn: {talk}, {talking}]
    

talk \talk\ (t[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {talked} (t[add]kt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {talking}.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov.
   G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret,
   MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly,
   Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t[=u]lka to
   interpret, t[=u]lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an
   interpreter, tulkanti, tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ.
   tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE.
   talien to speak (see {tale}, v. i. & n.).]
   1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as
      in familiar discourse, when two or more persons
      interchange thoughts.
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            I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
            walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
            with you.                             --Shak.
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   2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
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            Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. --Jer. xii.
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   3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
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   {To talk of}, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as,
      authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The
      natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of
      these rocks, and the great damage done." --Addison.

   {To talk to}, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as,
      I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
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Talking \Talk"ing\, a.
   1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
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   2. Given to talk; loquacious.
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            The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
            For talking age and whispering lovers made.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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65 Moby Thesaurus words for "talking":
      ESP, accents, answer, articulate, chatter, comment, commerce,
      communication, communion, congress, connection, contact,
      conversation, converse, correspondence, dealing, dealings,
      discourse, elocution, eloquent, exchange, free-speaking,
      free-spoken, gab, information, interaction, interchange,
      intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay,
      language, linguistic intercourse, loud-speaking, loud-spoken,
      message, oral communication, outspoken, palaver, parole,
      plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prattle, rapping, reply, response,
      social intercourse, soft-speaking, soft-spoken, speaking, speech,
      speech circuit, speech situation, talk, talkative, telepathy,
      touch, traffic, truck, true-speaking, two-way communication,
      well-spoken, words, yakkety-yak, yakking