Tongue

[tʌŋ]

解释:

(noun.) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot.

(noun.) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.

(noun.) a manner of speaking; 'he spoke with a thick tongue'; 'she has a glib tongue'.

(noun.) the tongue of certain animals used as meat.

(noun.) any long thin projection that is transient; 'tongues of flame licked at the walls'; 'rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark'.

(verb.) lick or explore with the tongue.

(verb.) articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments.

卡拉校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

(n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.

(n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

(n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.

(n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

(n.) Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.

(n.) A people having a distinct language.

(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.

(n.) The lingua of an insect.

(n.) Any small sole.

(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

(n.) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

(n.) The clapper of a bell.

(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5.

(v. t.) To speak; to utter.

(v. t.) To chide; to scold.

(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

(v. i.) To talk; to prate.

(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

布伦达编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Language, speech, idiom, dialect.[2]. Talk, discourse.[3]. Projection, projecting part.

校对:鲁珀特

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Discourse, speech, language, dialect, idiom,[See IMPOST]

加德纳整理

解释:

n. the fleshy organ in the mouth used in tasting swallowing and speech: power of speech: manner of speaking: speech: discourse: a language: anything like a tongue in shape: the catch of a buckle: the pointer of a balance: a point of land.—adjs. Tongued having a tongue.; Tongue′less having no tongue.—n. Tongue′let a little tongue.—p.adj. Tongue′-shaped shaped like a tongue: (bot.) linear and fleshy and blunt at the point as a leaf.—n. Tongue′ster a babbler.—adjs. Tongue′-tied -tacked having an impediment as if the tongue were tied: unable to speak freely.—n. Tongue′-work babble chatter.—Hold one's tongue (see Hold).

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