Talk : (noun)
1: an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work
and less talk around here" [syn: talking]
2: (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion
of') discussion; "his poetry contains much talk about love
and anger"
3: the act of giving a talk to an audience; "I attended an
interesting talk on local history"
4: a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture
on telecommunications" [syn: lecture, public lecture]
5: idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately"
[syn: talk of the town]
(verb)
1: exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business";
"Actions talk louder than words" [syn: speak]
2: express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This
depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: speak, utter,
mouth, verbalize, verbalise]
3: use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't
speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: speak]
4: reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!";
"The former employee spilled all the details" [syn: spill]
5: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be
careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let
the cat out of the bag, tattle, blab, peach, babble,
sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep quiet]
6: deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next
week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" [syn: lecture]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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. ``They would talk
themselves mad.'' --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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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[=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.
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. ``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.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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