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Defenition of the word tongue

    • Defenition of the word tongue

      • 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 a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot.
      • A person's manner of speaking.
      • metal piece that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
      • a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
      • a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
      • the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
      • a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"
      • the tongue of certain animals used as meat
      • lick or explore with the tongue
      • articulate by tonguing, as on wind instruments
      • any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
      • a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
      • metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
      • articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
      • a manner of speaking
      • any long thin projection that is transient

    Synonyms for the word tongue

      • clapper
      • glossa
      • knife
      • lingua
      • natural language
      • spit

    Meronymys for the word tongue

      • bell
      • boot
      • mouth
      • oral cavity
      • oral fissure
      • pharynx
      • rima oris
      • sand
      • shoe
      • tastebud
      • throat

    Hyponyms for the word tongue

      • Afrasian
      • Afrasian language
      • Afro-Asiatic
      • Afroasiatic
      • Afroasiatic language
      • American Indian
      • American-Indian language
      • Amerind
      • Amerindian language
      • Austro-Asiatic
      • austro-asiatic language
      • Austronesian
      • Austronesian language
      • Basque
      • beef tongue
      • calf's tongue
      • Cassite
      • Caucasian
      • Caucasian language
      • chukchi
      • chukchi language
      • creole
      • double tongue
      • Dravidian
      • Dravidian language
      • Dravidic
      • Elamite
      • Elamitic
      • Eskimo-Aleut
      • Eskimo-Aleut language
      • first language
      • Hamito-Semitic
      • hmong
      • hmong language
      • Indian
      • Indo-European
      • Indo-European language
      • Indo-Hittite
      • Kassite
      • Khoisan
      • Khoisan language
      • maternal language
      • miao
      • mother tongue
      • Munda-Mon-Khmer
      • Niger-Kordofanian
      • Niger-Kordofanian language
      • Nilo-Saharan
      • Nilo-Saharan language
      • Papuan
      • Papuan language
      • sharp tongue
      • Sino-Tibetan
      • Sino-Tibetan language
      • Susian
      • tonal language
      • tone language
      • triple-tongue
      • Ural-Altaic

    Hypernyms for the word tongue

      • articulator
      • cape
      • delivery
      • flap
      • language
      • lap
      • lick
      • linguistic communication
      • manner of speaking
      • ness
      • organ
      • organs
      • play
      • projection
      • render
      • speech
      • spiel
      • striker
      • variety meat

    Antonyms for the word tongue

      • artificial language

    Idioms for the word tongue

      • tongue attachment
      • tongue bar
      • tongue bone
      • tongue fish
      • tongue floor
      • tongue flounder
      • tongue forceps
      • tongue joint
      • tongue plane
      • tongue rail
      • tongue worms
      • tongue-and-groove
      • tongue-and-lip
      • tongue-swallowing
      • tongue-tie
      • tongue-tied
      • tongues of fire

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