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Talking   /tˈɔkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
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."
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.


talk  v. i.  (past & past part. talked; pres. part. talking)  
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."
2.
To confer; to reason; to consult. "Let me talk with thee of thy judgments."
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."
To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. (Colloq.)


adjective
Talking  adj.  
1.
That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
2.
Given to talk; loquacious. "The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made."





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"Talking" Quotes from Famous Books



... at night, after the store was closed for the day, that the toys had their fun—talking to one another, moving about, doing tricks, and the like of that. Now all that the Stuffed Elephant could do was to stand on his four sturdy legs, with his tail on one end, and his trunk, almost like a second tail, at the other ...
— The Story of a Stuffed Elephant • Laura Lee Hope
... again,' says Giglio, shaking his fist in Bulbo's face; and seizing up the warming-pan, he kissed it, because, forsooth, Betsinda had carried it, and rushed downstairs. What should he see on the landing but His Majesty talking to Betsinda, whom he called by all sorts of fond names. His Majesty had heard a row in the building, so he stated, and smelling something burning, had come out to see what the ...
— The Rose and the Ring • William Makepeace Thackeray
... time there was a little hunchback girl in the court, upon whom the duke fixed his vagrant desires, and she became his unconcealed favorite. The duke was ever in the habit of talking freely with Catharine about his paramours ...
— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott
... terms; fever, two terms—no, three, for you would want to take in yellow and typhus, as well as ordinary typhoid. Cholera—well, of course there would be difficulties, but you see the principle. Well, but we were talking about marriage. Now, you see, with all these new worlds opening before him, the physician cannot possibly be ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... as in the trenches in Flanders, you find the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their families. I came once upon a group of Bretons. They had opened some tins of sardines and sitting around a bucket of blazing coals they were toasting the fish on the ends of small twigs. I asked them why they were wasting their energies since ...
— The White Road to Verdun • Kathleen Burke


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