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talk in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. divulge confidential information or secrets
    "Be careful--his secretary talks"
    spill the beans  let the cat out of the bag  talk  tattle  blab  peach  babble  sing  babble out  blab out 
  2. deliver a lecture or talk
    "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
    lecture  talk 
  3. express in speech
    "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
    talk  speak  utter  mouth  verbalize  verbalise 
  4. exchange thoughts; talk with
    "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
    talk  speak 
  5. use language
    "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
    speak  talk 
  6. reveal information
    "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
    spill  talk 
noun
  1. a speech that is open to the public
    "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
    lecture  public lecture  talk 
  2. the act of giving a talk to an audience
    "I attended an interesting talk on local history"
    talk 
  3. an exchange of ideas via conversation
    "let's have more work and less talk around here"
    talk  talking 
  4. idle gossip or rumor
    "there has been talk about you lately"
    talk  talk of the town 
  5. discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of')
    "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger"
    talk 
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