<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.</li><li>to consult or confer: Talk with your adviser.</li><li>to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip.</li><li>to chatter or prate.</li><li>Synonyms: prattle</li><li>to employ speech; perform the act of speaking: to talk very softly; to talk into a microphone.</li><li>to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.: The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare.</li><li>to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information: After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked.</li><li>to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals.</li><li>Computers: to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal.</li><li>to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.</li><li>an informal speech or lecture.</li><li>Synonyms: confabulation, parley, dialogue, colloquy</li><li>a conference or negotiating session: peace talks.</li><li>report or rumor; gossip: There is a lot of talk going around about her.</li><li>a subject or occasion of talking, especially of gossip: Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood.</li><li>Synonyms: prattle</li><li>mere empty speech: That's just a lot of talk.</li><li>a way of talking: a halting, lisping talk.</li><li>language, dialect, or lingo.</li><li>signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to weigh in conversation; consider; discuss.</li><li>to cause (someone) to change an opinion; convince by talking: He became an expert at talking people over to his views.</li><li>to promote interest in; discuss enthusiastically.</li><li>to speak without hesitation; speak distinctly and openly: If you don't talk up now, you may not get another chance.</li><li>to reply to a command, request, etc., in a rude or disrespectful manner: Her father never allowed them to talk back.</li><li>to overwhelm by force of argument or by loud and persistent talking; subdue by talking.</li><li>to speak disparagingly of; belittle.</li><li>Also talk in.</li><li>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.</li><li>to talk until conversation is exhausted.</li><li>to attempt to reach a settlement or understanding by discussion: We arrived at a compromise by talking out the problem.</li><li>British Politics: to thwart the passage of (a bill, motion, etc.) by prolonging discussion until the session of Parliament adjourns. Compare filibuster (def 5).</li><li>to speak condescendingly to; patronize: Children dislike adults who talk down to them.</li><li>to talk to in a manner that indicates that a response is not expected or wanted.</li><li>to direct remarks meant for one person to another person present; speak indirectly to.</li><li>to debate as a possibility; discuss: The two companies have been talking of a merger.</li><li>to bring (someone) over to one's way of thinking; persuade: She sounded adamant over the phone, but I may still be able to talk her around.</li><li>to spend or consume (time) in talking: We talked away the tedious hours in the hospital.</li></ul>