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tongue
has definitions from the fields of clothing,anatomy,zoology,linguistics,rhetoric,chemistry,food,geography,sexuality,music
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Just when it seems baseball might be losing its grip on the masses up pops heroics to start millions of tongues to wagging . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)His unsuccessful strivings to give_up drink are represented as religious strivings ; he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home , and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod_Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees , and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue - and still in_the_end capitulated '' . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Mauve colored mouths that had never known anything sweeter than the taste of new wine and the passion of man 's tongue had not smiled , but had condemned again_and_again . And the forked tongue of gossip licked its sinister way from back_porch to back_porch . Suddenly he was interrupted in his daydreaming by a warm wetness lapping against his chin , and his eyes opened wide and long at the sight of a goat 's claret tongue , feasting against the salt taste of him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Synonyms Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)By 800 B.C. the Aegean was an area of common tongue and of common culture . (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)All_around the Mediterranean_Sea , Asia_Minor , northern India , and Tibet , Hebrew was the native tongue . Its citizens spoke all_of the world 's surviving tongues , plus a new one called Lingo , a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet_of_paper . Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten_the_jump_on the Hawaiian Americans who were busy resettling North_America and the western half of South_America after the Apocalyptic_War . |
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[ noun ] any long thin projection that is transient
Synonyms Examples "tongues of flame licked at the walls" "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) a manner of speaking
Examples "he spoke with a thick tongue" "she has a glib tongue" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (sexuality) lick or explore with the tongue
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[ verb ] (music) articulate by tonguing, as on wind instruments
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) the tongue of certain animals used as meat
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 24145
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