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say it: tawk
talk is a verb and noun meaning "exchange thoughts; talk with". It is pronounced /ˈtɔk/ — tawk. It carries 11 recorded senses.
exchange thoughts; talk with
“We often talk business”
“Actions talk louder than words”
use language
“the baby talks already”
“the prisoner won't speak”
“they speak a strange dialect”
divulge confidential information or secrets
“Be careful--his secretary talks”
an exchange of ideas via conversation
“let's have more work and less talk around here”
discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of')
“his poetry contains much talk about love and anger”
the act of giving a talk to an audience
“I attended an interesting talk on local history”
a speech that is open to the public
“he attended a lecture on telecommunications”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for talk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.