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TALKING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exchange of ideas via conversation

Example:

let's have more work and less talk around here

Synonyms:

talk; talking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("talking" is a kind of...):

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "talking"):

cant; pious platitude (insincere talk about religion or morals)

dialog; dialogue; duologue (a conversation between two persons)

heart-to-heart (an intimate talk in private)

shmooze ((Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk)

shop talk (talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand)

idle words; jazz; malarkey; malarky; nothingness; wind (empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk)

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak (noisy talk)

Derivation:

talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb talk

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 Context examples: 

“Ah, Mr. Utterson, that’s talking!” cried the butler.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But he would never cease talking of it—your kindness, sir, and the way in which you brought light into the darkness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The area of the throat containing the vocal cords and used for breathing, swallowing, and talking.

(Larynx, NCI Dictionary)

As symptoms get worse, people with the disease may have trouble walking, talking, or doing simple tasks.

(Parkinson's Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We were talking the matter over when suddenly I raised my eyes to the corner of the ceiling, and I saw—I saw—

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There they paused, and stood for a few minutes face to face talking earnestly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cancer that forms in tissues of the larynx (area of the throat that contains the vocal cords and is used for breathing, swallowing, and talking).

(Laryngeal cancer, NCI Dictionary)

It forms a thin layer over the surface of the mouth and throat to prevent irritation while eating, drinking, and talking.

(Gelclair, NCI Dictionary)

He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of what he said.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)