TONGUE
Definition:
- [noun] a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Synonyms: lingua, glossa, clapper
- [noun] a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Synonyms: natural language
- [noun] any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
Synonyms: knife
- [noun] a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"
- [noun] a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Synonyms: spit
- [noun] the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- [noun] the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
- [noun] metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
Synonyms: clapper
- [verb] articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
- [verb] lick or explore with the tongue
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Related Words:
- double tongue, triple-tongue
- mother tongue, maternal language, first language
- tone language, tonal language
- creole
- Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian
- Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language
- Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language
- Austro-Asiatic, Munda-Mon-Khmer
- Austronesian, Austronesian language
- Papuan, Papuan language
- Khoisan, Khoisan language
- Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite
- Ural-Altaic
- Basque
- Elamitic, Elamite, Susian
- Kassite, Cassite
- Caucasian, Caucasian language
- Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian language
- Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic
- Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language
- Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language
- sharp tongue
- beef tongue
- calf's tongue
