Definitions for talks

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talks talk

Spelling: [tawk]

IPA: /tɔk/

Talks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in talks (aklst).

Definitions for talks

noun

1. the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
2. an informal speech or lecture.
3. a conference or negotiating session:
4. report or rumor; gossip:
5. a subject or occasion of talking, especially of gossip:
6. mere empty speech:
7. a way of talking:
8. language, dialect, or lingo.
9. signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism.

Idioms

1. talk big, Informal. to speak boastingly; brag:
2. talk someone's head / ear off, to bore or weary someone by excessive talk; talk incessantly:
3. talk to death, to impede or prevent the passage of (a bill) through filibustering. to talk to incessantly or at great length.

Verb phrases

1. talk around, to bring (someone) over to one's way of thinking; persuade:
2. talk at, to talk to in a manner that indicates that a response is not expected or wanted. to direct remarks meant for one person to another person present; speak indirectly to.
3. talk away, to spend or consume (time) in talking:
4. talk back, to reply to a command, request, etc., in a rude or disrespectful manner:
5. talk down, to overwhelm by force of argument or by loud and persistent talking; subdue by talking. to speak disparagingly of; belittle. Also, talk in. to give instructions to by radio for a ground-controlled landing, especially to a pilot who is unable to make a conventional landing because of snow, fog, etc.
6. talk down to, to speak condescendingly to; patronize:
7. talk of, to debate as a possibility; discuss:
8. talk out, to talk until conversation is exhausted. to attempt to reach a settlement or understanding by discussion: British Politics. to thwart the passage of (a bill, motion, etc.) by prolonging discussion until the session of Parliament adjourns. Compare filibuster (def 5).
9. talk over, to weigh in conversation; consider; discuss. to cause (someone) to change an opinion; convince by talking:
10. talk up, to promote interest in; discuss enthusiastically. to speak without hesitation; speak distinctly and openly:

verb (used with object)

1. to express in words; utter:
2. to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing:
3. to discuss:
4. Informal. (used only in progressive tenses) to focus on; signify or mean; talk about:
5. to bring, put, drive, influence, etc., by talk:

verb (used without object)

1. to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking:
2. to consult or confer:
3. to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip.
4. to chatter or prate.
5. to employ speech; perform the act of speaking:
6. to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.:
7. to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information:
8. to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals.
9. Computers. to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal.
10. to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech.

Origin of talks

1175-1225; Middle English talk(i)en to converse, speak, derivative (with -k suffix) of tale speech, discourse, tale; cognate with Frisian (E dial.) talken

Examples for talks

Makes me glum, and 'tain't my money that's bein' talked out of me, nuther.

talked out of doing so by friends, Forcade returned to smuggling in 1978.

They talked and talked until she was talked out, and it was midnight.

Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself.

Some are seeking reasons to go, others hoping to be talked out of it.

What would the baronet say when he learned that he had been talked out of his wife by his grandson?

Who will stand bluff to what he believes, and won't be talked out of his boots.

The motion, however, was talked out by the Government's supporters.

“Nothing was ever discussed, and nothing was ever talked out in a committee meeting,” he insists.

Men will not be talked out of the convictions of their lives.