English Dictionary

tongue

/tʌŋ/

noun

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.

She stuck out her tongue at him.

意味（1）

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.

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies, The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!

意味（2）

(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).

cold tongue with mustard

意味（3）

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

意味（4）

(metonymically) A language.

(colloquial)

意味（5）

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).

Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,

Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty, Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.

意味（7）

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded,

Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded, How ſhuld a fals lying tung then be rewarded?

意味（8）

(metonymically) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.

意味（9）

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Parrots imitating Human Tongue

意味（10）

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

意味（11）

(obsolete, uncountable) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

… fellows, soldiers, friends,

Better consider what you have to do

Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,

… fellows, soldiers, friends, Better consider what you have to do Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion.

意味（12）

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

She was born noble; let that title find her

She was born noble; let that title find her A private grave, but neither tongue nor honour!

意味（13）

(religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

意味（14）

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).

I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.

意味（15）

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.

意味（16）

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

意味（17）

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.

意味（18）

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.

意味（19）

The clapper of a bell.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:

意味（20）

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair

We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue

Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.

意味（21）

A small sole (type of fish).

意味（22）

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

意味（23）

(music) A reed.

意味（24）

(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.