talk
[tɔːk]
Definition:
1. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
2. The act of giving a talk to an audience.
3. A speech that is open to the public.
'talk' example sentence:
- Talk to your doctor if you're still worried.
- The talk was virulently hostile to the leadership.
- You are not to talk during the exam.
- You hear talk about American business being flabby.
- A child learns to talk by imitation.
- Do call if you want to talk about it.
- Don't phone me at work ─ people will talk.
- The judge's decision became a legal talking point.
- How dare you talk to me like that?
- The boys all began to talk at once.
- Talk to me before you do anything drastic.
- Don't hang up on me—we must talk!
- At last we could relax and talk without constraint.
- We won't talk about that—that's history.
- Don't pay any attention to her ─ she's all talk.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- He doesn't like to talk about his private life.
- Is Sam there? Let me talk to him.
- I'd sooner not talk about it.
- We're talking £ 500 for three hours' work.
- OK. Now, let's talk some business.
- We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract.
- That question is not within the scope of this talk.
- He described talk of sackings as scare stories.
- Have you been talking about me behind my back?
- Let's talk just about investment generally.
- Don't you think talking to her would do some good?
- You can talk frankly to me.
- He's talking in terms of starting a completely new career.
- What we want from the management is fighting talk.
- Talking to others can often help to put your own problems into perspective.
- When they get together, all they talk about is football.
- We don't often have time to talk.
- He was too distressed to talk.
- I didn't know what he was talking about.
- I think it's time we had a talk.
- It's good to talk.
- His refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
- They talk about it endlessly.
- Talking about my problems doesn't come easy to me.
- It helped being able to talk about it.
- She recast her lecture as a radio talk.
- Have I picked a bad time to talk to you?
- It pleased him to talk to her.
- Let's talk all about it outside, eh?
- We won't talk about that ─ that's history.
- It would be better for him to talk to his parents about his problems.
- The talks look set to stretch into a second week.
- We couldn't understand them because they were talking in Chinese.
- I'm warning you for the last time ─ stop talking!
- My talk falls naturally into three parts.
- I found the talk both informative and entertaining.
- Many people were expecting the peace talks would break down.
- Can you talk me through the various investment options?
- I'd rather not talk about it in mixed company.
- She gave an interesting talk on her visit to China.
- I'd like to talk to you about a personal matter.
- I made a mental note to talk to her about it.