Tongue Definition–noun | 1. | Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in
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humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking. | | 2. | Zoology. an analogous organ in invertebrate animals. | | 3. | the tongue of an animal, as an ox, beef, or sheep, used for food, often prepared by smoking or pickling. | | 4. | the human tongue as the organ of speech: No tongue must ever tell the secret. | | 5. | the faculty or power of speech: a sight no tongue can describe. | | 6. | speech or talk, esp. mere glib or empty talk. | | 7. | manner or character of speech: a flattering tongue. | | 8. | the language of a particular people, region, or nation: the Hebrew tongue. | | 10. | (in the Bible) a people or nation distinguished by its language. | | 12. | an object that resembles an animal's tongue in shape, position, or function. | | 13. | a strip of leather or other material under the lacing or fastening of a shoe. | | 14. | a piece of metal suspended inside a bell that strikes against the side producing a sound; clapper. | | 15. | a vibrating reed or similar structure in a musical instrument, as in a clarinet, or in part of a musical instrument, as in an organ reed pipe. | | 16. | the pole extending from a carriage or other vehicle between the animals drawing it. | | 17. | a projecting strip along the center of the edge or end of a board, for fitting into a groove in another board. | | 18. | a narrow strip of land extending into a body of water; cape. | | 19. | a section of ice projecting outward fro
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m the submerged part of an iceberg. | | 20. | Machinery. a long, narrow projection on a machine. | | 21. | that part of a railroad switch that is shifted to direct the wheels of a locomotive or car to one or the other track of a railroad. | | 22. | the pin of a buckle, brooch, etc. | –verb (used with object) | 23. | to articulate (tones played on a clarinet, trumpet, etc.) by strokes of the tongue. | | 24. | Carpentry. | a. | to cut a tongue on (a board). | | b. | to join or fit together by a tongue-and-groove joint. | | | 25. | to touch with the tongue. | | 26. | to articulate or pronounce. | –verb (used without object) | 28. | to tongue tones played on a clarinet, trumpet, etc. | | 29. | to talk, esp. idly or foolishly; chatter; prate. | | 30. | to project like a tongue. | —Idioms | 31. | find one's tongue, to regain one's powers of speech; recover one's poise: She wanted to say something, but couldn't find her tongue. | | 32. | give tongue, | a. | Fox Hunting. (of a hound) to bay while following a scent. | | b. | to utter one's thoughts; speak: He wouldn't give tongue to his suspicions. | | | 33. | hold one's tongue, to refrain from or cease speaking; keep silent. | | 34. | lose one's tongue, to lose the power of speech, esp. temporarily. | | 35. | on the tip of one's (or the) tongue, | a. | on the verge of being uttered. | | b. | unable to be recalled; barely escaping one's memory: The answer was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't think of it. | | | 36. | slip of the tongue, a mistake in speaking, as an inadvertent remark. | | 37. | (with) tongue in cheek, ironically or mockingly; insincerely. | |
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Ring Definition–noun | 1. | a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, esp. one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc. | | 2. | anything having the form of such a band: a napkin ring; a smoke ring. | | 3. | a circular or surrounding line or mark: dark rings around the eyes. | | 4. | a circular course: to dance in a ring. | | 5. | a number of persons or things situated in a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement: a ring of stones; a ring of hills. | | 6. | the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim. | | 7. | an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition: a circus ring. | | 9. | an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts. | | 10. | the sport of boxing; prizefighting: the heyday of the ring. | | 11. | (formerly in the U.S., now only in Brit.) an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets. | | 12. | a group of persons cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law: a ring of dope smugglers. | | 13. | a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course. | | 14. | Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles. | | 16. | a circle of bark cut from around a tree. | <
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/table> | 17. | Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form. Compare chain (def. 7). | | 18. | Architecture. rowlock (def. 1). | | 19. | a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured. | | 20. | Also called spinning ring. Textiles. (in the ring-spinning frame) a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement. | | 21. | a unit of measurement of the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch. Also called ring gauge. | | 23. | Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold. | –verb (used with object) | 24. | to surround with a ring; encircle. | | 26. | to insert a ring through the nose of (an animal). | | 27. | to hem in (animals) by riding or circling about them. | | 29. | (in horseshoes, ringtoss, etc.) to encircle (a stake or peg) with a ring, horseshoe, etc. | –verb (used without object) | 30. | to form a ring or rings. | | 31. | to move in
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a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain. | —Idioms | 32. | run rings around, to be obviously superior to; surpass; outdo: As an artist, she can run rings around her brother. | | 33. | throw or toss one's hat in or into the ring. hat (def. 8). | From DictionaryRelated topics from Britannicaokapi
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