(n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
(n.) To confer; to reason; to consult.
(n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.
(v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
(v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
(v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
(v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
(n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(4) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(6) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(7) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(8) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(9) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(10) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(11) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
(12) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(13) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(14) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(15) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(16) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(18) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(19) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
(20) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
Talkative
Definition:
(a.) Given to much talking.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
(2) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
(3) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
(4) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(5) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
(6) Role-playing by selected drama students and community theatre actors involves common problems encountered in the optometrist's office and management of problem patients (angry, aggressive, shy, withdrawn, talkative, flirt, hypocondriac, etc.
(7) The mental state was characterized by an expressed mental retardation with some special traits: relatively well developed speech, talkativeness, good-naturedness, an euphoric mood, inactivity and poor motor functioning.
(8) Lorna Wing, author of the first classic papers on full-spectrum autism, was herself the mother of an autistic daughter, Susie: “Parents … tend to overlook or reject the idea of autism for their socially gauche, naive, talkative, clumsy child,” she wrote.
(9) What was astonishing about Day-Lewis's Bafta acceptance speech was how calm and talkative he seemed.
(10) But a minor Waitrose-related spat broke out in Westminster on Thursday, with David Cameron accused of elitism as he expressed the personal view that its shoppers tended to be more talkative and "engaged" than customers of other supermarkets.
(11) Mosshart is far more sunny and talkative than her onstage image as the love child of Patti Smith and Johnny Thunders suggests.
(12) Multiple measures of family adaptability, cohesion, and talkativeness were administered to two family members (insiders) and two significant others (outsiders).
(13) Visual analogue scales showed subjective drug effects: pentazocine made the volunteers talkative, contented, interested and energetic, whilst codeine rendered them mentally slow.
(14) We assess the hierarchical relations between traits differing in breadth, using a task in which subjects select the most meaningful of two statements, such as "To be talkative is a way of being extroverted" versus "To be extroverted is a way of being talkative."
(15) Two longitudinal studies of 2-year-old children who were extreme in the display of either behavioral restraint or spontaneity in unfamiliar contexts revealed that by 7 years of age a majority of the restrained group were quiet and socially avoidant with unfamiliar children and adults whereas a majority of the more spontaneous children were talkative and interactive.
(16) Although Crace describes himself as a "landscape writer", he has always dismissed the British landscape as being "too spoken for, too talkative, too small".
(17) Two groups of Type A individuals were found--one that was repressed, tense, and illness-prone, but another that was healthy, talkative, in control, and charismatic.
(18) I love its friendly, multiracial, talkative people.
(19) Telephone companies sent out warning letters to customers they thought were too talkative.
(20) It may look a silly, over-talkative film now – and there are Taylor pictures where the sheer visual glory has dated comically – until you let the story melt away and just gaze at her: in Ivanhoe, say, or Beau Brummell, or The Sandpiper or The Last Time I Saw Paris.