tongues
US: /ˈtəŋz/
UK: /tˈʌŋz/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
tongue /tʌɳ/- danh từ
- cái lưỡi
- cách ăn nói, miệng lưỡi
- tiếng, ngôn ngữ
- one's mother tongue: tiếng mẹ đẻ
- vật hình lưỡi; kim (của cái cân); ngọn (lửa); doi (đất); ghi (xe lửa); lưỡi gà (kèn)
- to be all tongue
- chỉ nói thôi, nói luôn mồm
- to find one's tongue
- dè dặt (ngượng ngùng, lúng túng, im lặng...) mãi mới nói
- to give (throw) tongue
- nói to
- sủa
- to have lost one's tongue
- rụt rè ít nói
- to have one's tongue in one's cheek
- (xem) cheek
- to have a quick (ready) tongue
- lém miệng; mau miệng
- to hold one's tongue
- nín lặng, không nói gì
- to keep a civil tongue in one's head
- (xem) civil
- much tongue and little judgment
- nói nhiều nghĩ ít
- to wag one's tongue
- (xem) wag
- a tongue debate
- một cuộc đấu khẩu, một cuộc tranh luận
- tongue valiant
- bạo nói
- what a tongue!
- ăn nói lạ chứ!
- động từ
- ngắt âm (sáo, kèn...) bằng lưỡi
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 language, speech; dialect, patois, Creole, idiom, parlance, argot, talk, vernacular, façon de parler:
The people in that area speak a strange tongue.
2 (verbal) expression, utterance, voice, articulation:
Michael is reluctant to give tongue to his real feelings.
3 hold (one's) tongue. be or remain or keep silent, keep mum, say nothing or nought, not breathe a word, keep (one's) counsel, not say a word, Slang shut up:
Hold your tongue till you are spoken to!
4 slip of the tongue. slip, mistake, gaffe, blunder, faux pas, Freudian slip, Colloq Brit boob:
Saying 'bald' when I meant 'bold' was a slip of the tongue.
5 (with (one's)) tongue in (one's) cheek. facetiously, whimsically, ironically, jocularly, jokingly, not seriously, in jest, jestingly, in fun, to be funny, Colloq kiddingly:
As he is my older brother, I call him 'Dad' with tongue in cheek, of course.
Concise dictionary
tonguestʌŋnoun
+a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
+a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
+any long thin projection that is transient
+a manner of speaking
+a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
+the tongue of certain animals used as meat
+the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
+metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
verb
+articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
+lick or explore with the tongue
