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verb

• To communicate, usually by means of speech.

  Example: Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.

• To discuss; to talk about.

  Example: That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!

• To speak (a certain language).

  Example: We talk French sometimes.

• (chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

  Example: Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.

• To confess, especially implicating others.

  Example: She can be relied upon not to talk.

• To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

  Example: I am not the one to talk.

• To gossip; to create scandal.

  Example: Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?

• (chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

  Example: That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!

noun

• A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.

  Example: We need to have a talk about your homework.

• A lecture.

  Example: There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.

• Gossip; rumour.

  Example: There's been talk lately about the two of them.

• (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.

  Example: She is the talk of the day.

• (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:

• (not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.

  Example: The party leader's speech was all talk.

• (usually plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

  Example: The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.