talk
Từ điển Collocation
talk noun
1 a conversation
ADJ. good, little (often ironic), long, quiet, serious I will have to have a little talk with that young lady (= tell her that I disapprove of sth). | heart-to-heart, intimate
VERB + TALK have
TALK + NOUN show
PREP. ~ about I enjoyed our talk about the old days. | ~ with I need to have a heart-to-heart talk with her.
PHRASES (to exchange/make) small talk (= to talk politely about unimportant things) He was never very good at making small talk with her parents.
2 talking
ADJ. excited, heady There was excited talk of emigrating to America. | ridiculous, wild There is ridiculous talk of her breaking the world record soon. | careless, dangerous, idle, loose | fighting, tough | straight She likes straight talk and hates hypocrites. | double The president's true agenda was hidden in political double talk. | dirty, filthy | cheap, easy, empty, mere The chairman's boasts about future profits was just cheap talk. | fine, grand (ironic) What all the fine talk came down to was hard cash. | baby I never used baby talk to my little girl. | pillow the pillow talk of lovers
TALK + VERB turn to sth Talk turned to money and tempers began to fray.
PREP. ~ about/of All this talk of the president resigning is nonsense!
PHRASES be just talk ‘You think it's just talk?’ ‘No, I think it's true.’ | for all the talk of sth For all the talk of bringing their children up the same, the boys ended up never doing any of the cooking.
3 (also talks) discussions between official groups
ADJ. lengthy | high-level, top-level | informal | formal, official | private, secret | open | direct, face-to-face | wide-ranging | all-party, bilateral, inter-party, joint, multilateral, round-table, trilateral, tripartite | fresh, further | fruitless, inconclusive | crisis, emergency, urgent | exploratory, preliminary | constitutional, political | arms, pay, peace, trade
QUANT. round A further round of talks is expected in March.
VERB + TALK conduct, have, hold The two governments held secret talks on the nuclear threat. | broker, host | attend, enter | initiate, open | break off, pull out of, walk out of The union has broken off talks with the management. | cancel, suspend | reopen, resume
TALK + VERB be scheduled Talks were scheduled for Rome the following month. | take place The peace talks will take place in Cairo. | begin, open, start | end | resume | be aimed at sth, be designed to the latest round of talks aimed at ending the civil war | centre on sth, concentrate on sth, cover sth, deal with sth, focus on sth The talks centred on bilateral trade. | produce sth Talks produced agreement on an end to the occupation. | be deadlocked, break down, collapse, fail, founder, stall The talks remain deadlocked over spending plans. The talks foundered on the issue of compensation.
PREP. during ~ The agreement was concluded during talks in Beijing. | in ~ He is currently in talks with two football clubs. | ~ about/on/over holding talks over the political future of the province | ~ between the failure of talks between the two communities | ~ with The delegation arrived for talks with their government.
4 lecture
ADJ. entertaining, informative, interesting | introductory | pep, sales, team | radio
VERB + TALK give | attend, go to
TALK + VERB be entitled sth She gave a very entertaining talk entitled ‘My life and hard times’.
PREP. ~ about/on Did you go to the talk on Peru?
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- an exchange of ideas via conversation; talking
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; lecture, public lecture
he attended a lecture on telecommunications
- idle gossip or rumor; talk of the town
there has been talk about you lately
v.
- exchange thoughts; talk with; speak
We often talk business
Actions talk louder than words
- express in speech; speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
She talks a lot of nonsense
This depressed patient does not verbalize
- use language; speak
the baby talks already
the prisoner won't speak
they speak a strange dialect
- reveal information; spill
If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!
The former employee spilled all the details
- divulge confidential information or secrets; spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
Be careful--his secretary talks
- deliver a lecture or talk; lecture
She will talk at Rutgers next week
Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. The UNIX command that, when followed by another user’s name and address, is used to generate a request for a synchronous chat session on the Internet. See also chat1 (definition 1).vb. See chat2.
File Extension Dictionary
Text to Speech
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
talks|talked|talking
syn.: converse discuss gossip report rumor speak
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