Dictionary Entry
tongue
tongue is a 6-letter English word with 35 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 35 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
- 2noun
The power of articulate utterance; speech.
- 3noun
Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
- 4noun
Honorable discourse; eulogy.
- 5noun
A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
- 6noun
Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
- 7noun
A people having a distinct language.
- 8noun
The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
- 9noun
The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
- 10noun
The lingua of an insect.
- 11noun
Any small sole.
- 12noun
That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
- 13noun
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
- 14noun
A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
- 15noun
A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
- 16noun
The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- 17noun
The clapper of a bell.
- 18noun
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.
- 19noun
Same as Reed, n., 5.
- 20transitive verb
To speak; to utter.
- 21transitive verb
To chide; to scold.
- 22transitive verb
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
- 23transitive verb
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
- 24intransitive verb
To talk; to prate.
- 25intransitive verb
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
- 26noun
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
Synonyms
- 27noun
the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
- 28noun
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- 29noun
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- 30noun
a manner of speaking
"he spoke with a thick tongue"
"she has a glib tongue"
- 31noun
the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- 32noun
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Synonyms
- 33noun
any long thin projection that is transient
"tongues of flame licked at the walls"
"rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
Synonyms
- 34verb
lick or explore with the tongue
- 35verb
articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
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