Tongue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

   “But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,”

2. isim Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).

   “cold tongue with mustard”

3. isim Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
4. isim A language.

   “He was speaking in his native tongue.”

5. isim The speakers of a language, collectively.

   “I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.”

6. isim A voice, (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).

   “Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty, Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.”

7. isim A manner of speaking, often habitually.

   “She can have a sharp tongue when she's annoyed.”

8. isim A person speaking in a specified manner.

   “I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.”

9. isim The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

   “I was so overwhelmed my tongue deserted me.”

10. isim Discourse; the fluency of speech or expression.
11. isim Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

    “[...] fellows, soldiers, friends, Better consider what you have to do Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion.”

12. isim Honorable discourse; eulogy.

    “She was born noble; let that title find her A private grave, but neither tongue nor honour!”

13. isim Glossolalia.

    “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

14. isim In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

    “I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.”

15. isim Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
16. isim A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

    “the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance”

17. isim A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

    “On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.”

18. isim The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

    “Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.”

19. isim The clapper of a bell.

    “The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:”

20. isim An individual point of flame from a fire.

    “Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.”

21. fiil On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

    “Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.”

22. fiil To manipulate with the tongue.

    “[T]he cattle tongued at the damp grass, licking rather than grazing. […]”

23. fiil To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.

    “Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me.”

24. fiil To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

    “a soil horizon that tongues into clay”

25. fiil To join by means of a tongue and groove.

    “to tongue boards together”

26. fiil To talk; to prate.
27. fiil To speak; to utter.

    “’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not;”

28. fiil To chide; to scold.

    “How might she tongue me!”

29. özel isim A village by the Kyle of Tongue in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC5956).
30. özel isim A surname.