talking

/tɔkɪŋ/

/ˈtɔkɪŋ/

Other forms: talkings

Talking is what we do when we speak words out loud. Your teacher probably forbids talking when students are taking a test. Shh!

Are you having a discussion? Giving a lecture? Issuing commands to your dog? These are all examples of talking, using the power of speech to communicate. When you give someone a talking-to, you scold them, and if you start a sentence with talking of, what you mean is "continuing with the subject at hand, there's more I'd like to say," as in, "Talking of puppies, I was thinking we should get one!"

Definitions of talking

1. noun

   an exchange of ideas via conversation
   synonyms: talk

   types:

   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

   blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle

   idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

   type of:

   conversation

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