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


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.

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

talks|talked|talking
syn.: converse discuss gossip report rumor speak