Definition av tongue

• The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech
• A language
• Speakers of a language, collectively
• Voice ; accent
• Manner of speaking, often habitually
• A person speaking in a specified manner (''most often plural''
• The power of articulate utterance; speech generally
• Discourse; fluency of speech or expression
• Honourable discourse; eulogy
• Glossolalia
• In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (''so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth''
• Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part
• A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake
• The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked
• The clapper of a bell
• An individual point of flame from a fire
• A small sole (type of fish
• A reed
• On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'dor 'tsound (alveolar plosive
• To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex
• To join by means of a tongue and groove
• To talk; to prate
• To speak; to utter
• To chide; to scold

Exempel

• cold tongue with mustard
• He was speaking in his native tongue.
• the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
• Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
• a soil horizon that tongues into clay
• to tongue boards together

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