talk : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: talk	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for talk
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
talk n an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here" Synonym(s): talk, 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 lecture on telecommunications" Synonym(s): lecture, public lecture, talk idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately" Synonym(s): talk, talk of the town v exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" Synonym(s): talk, speak express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" Synonym(s): talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" Synonym(s): speak, talk reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details" Synonym(s): spill, talk divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" Synonym(s): spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out Antonym(s): keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" Synonym(s): lecture, talk
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Talk \Talk\, v. t. 1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French. 2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics. 3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening. 4. To cause to be or become by talking. [bd]They would talk themselves mad.[b8] --Shak. {To talk over}. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Talk \Talk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Talked}; 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[?]lka to interpret, t[?]lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulk[d3]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. 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. 2. To confer; to reason; to consult. Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. --Jer. xii. 1. 3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.] {To talk of}, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. [bd]The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.[b8] --Addison. {To talk to}, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Talk \Talk\, n. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. In various talk the instructive hours they passed. --Pope. Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. --Macaulay. 2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. --Locke. 3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. Syn: Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See {Conversation}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
talk A {Unix} program and {protocol} supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include {ntalk}, {ytalk}, and {ports} or {emulators} of these programs for other {platforms}. {Unix} has the {talk} program and {protocol} and its variants {xtalk} and {ytalk} for the {X Window System}; {VMS} has {phone}; {Windows for Workgroups} has {chat}. {ITS} also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user. {Unix}'s {write} command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen. Users of such systems are said to be in {talk mode} which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into {chat} jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of {user} prattle from talk-like systems to {chat} systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include: "BYE?" - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types "BYE" to confirm, or else continues the conversation. "JAM"/"MIN" - just a minute "O" - "over" (I have stopped talking). Also "/" as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common). "OO" - "over and out" - end of conversation. "\" - Greek {lambda}. "R U THERE?" - are you there? "SEC" - wait a second. "/\/\/" - laughter. But on a {MUD}, this usually means "earthquake fault". See also {talk bomb}. (1998-01-25)