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tongue | American Dictionary

tongue
noun
us/tʌŋ/

tonguenoun (MOUTH PART)

the movable part in the mouth that is used in tasting and swallowing food and, in people, in producing speech

tonguenoun (LANGUAGE)

[ C ]
a language:
McAdam could speak the Eskimo tongue, too.

Examples of tongue

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Pitch is rarely stable during the first few milliseconds of a note attack particularly on a tongued reed instrument.
Her polished and lovely verse indicates reading, and the absorption of the riches of the literary past of her own and other tongues.
The livers and tongues were swabbed just after removal of the pluck and the carcasses immediately before or after blast chilling.
Two teachers (both woodwind, and neither generally in favour of demonstration) cited the invisibility of tonguing technique to reach opposite conclusions.
He possessed numerous books, studied five foreign tongues, and eventually wrote the history of the early colony.
During treatment, the possessing spirit often communicates its demands by making the patient" speak with tongues".
There is no longer a conflict between the living and the dead tongues.
When people from different cultures and educated in different tongues try to communicate, indirect or roundabout expressions can easily lead to misunderstandings.
In contrast, a lingua franca has a single, overriding purpose: to achieve unambiguous communication between people with mutually unintelligible tongues.
Men spoke with double tongues saying one thing and meaning another.
One of the methods was to inhibit inner speech by asking the subjects, for example, to protrude their tongues while solving mental arithmetic tasks.
Most primates have much better voluntary control over their hands and arms than over their mouths and tongues.
However, we humans move our tongues extensively when we speak.
In my name shall they cast out devils ; they shall speak with new tongues.
Ten of these deal with tongues near or in the rainforests that are not familiar to most linguists.
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