Synonyms of the word tongue


TONGUEARTICULATOR - CAPE - CLAPPER - DELIVERY - FLAP - GLOSSA - KNIFE - LANGUAGE - LAP - LICK - LINGUA - NESS - ORGAN - ORGANS - PLAY - PROJECTION - SPEECH - SPIEL - SPIT - STRIKER

tongue

  • n. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved…
  • n. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or…
  • n. (metonymically) A language.
  • n. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
  • n. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
  • n. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
  • n. (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
  • n. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles…
  • n. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into…
  • n. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
  • n. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
  • n. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  • n. The clapper of a bell.
  • n. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
  • n. A small sole (type of fish).
  • n. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper…
  • n. (music) A reed.
  • v. (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with…
  • v. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
  • v. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
  • v. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.

articulator

  • n. One who, or that which, articulates.

cape

  • n. (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory;…
  • n. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but…
  • v. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
  • v. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
  • v. (obsolete) To look for, search after.
  • v. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

clapper

  • n. One who claps.
  • n. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.
  • n. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
  • n. A clapstick (musical instrument).
  • n. (sewing) A pounding block.
  • v. (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
  • n. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

flap

  • n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
  • n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • n. A hinged leaf.
  • n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
  • n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
  • n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • n. A disease in the lips of horses.
  • n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
  • n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
  • v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
  • v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

glossa

  • n. (zoology) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect.

knife

  • n. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or…
  • n. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too…
  • n. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
  • v. (transitive) To cut with a knife.
  • v. (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge…
  • v. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
  • v. (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
  • v. (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut.

language

  • n. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a…
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
  • n. (uncountable) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which…
  • n. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
  • n. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
  • n. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
  • n. (uncountable) Profanity.
  • v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
  • n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

lap

  • n. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  • n. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  • n. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person…
  • n. (figuratively) a place of rearing and fostering.
  • n. The upper legs of a seated person.
  • n. (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
  • n. (construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
  • v. (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  • v. (transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
  • v. (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
  • v. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up.
  • v. (transitive) to envelop, enfold.
  • v. (intransitive) to wind around.
  • v. (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
  • v. (transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
  • v. (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
  • v. (transitive) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
  • v. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
  • n. The act or process of lapping.
  • n. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
  • n. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent…
  • n. The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance…
  • n. (sports) One circuit around a race track, or one traversal down and then back the length of a pool.
  • n. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;…
  • n. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
  • n. A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion…
  • v. (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

lick

  • n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
  • n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • n. (colloquial) A bit.
  • n. (music) A short motif.
  • n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
  • v. To stroke with the tongue.
  • v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • v. (colloquial) To overcome.
  • v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
  • v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

lingua

  • n. (zoology) A tongue.
  • n. (zoology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

ness

  • n. (geography) A promontory; a cape or headland. (frequently used as a suffix in placenames).

organ

  • n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
  • n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
  • n. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ),…
  • n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
  • n. A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi).
  • n. (slang) The penis.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

organs

  • n. plural of organ.

play

  • v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
  • v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
  • v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
  • v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
  • v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
  • v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
  • v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
  • v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
  • v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
  • n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
  • n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
  • n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
  • n. The conduct, or course of a game.
  • n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
  • n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
  • n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
  • n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
  • n. (countable) A major move by a business.
  • n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
  • n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
  • n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

projection

  • n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
  • n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
  • n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
  • n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
  • n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
  • n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  • n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  • n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

speech

  • n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
  • n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • n. A style of speaking.
  • n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
  • n. A dialect or language.
  • n. Talk; mention; rumour.

spiel

  • n. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
  • n. A fast excuse or sales pitch.
  • n. An early form of rap music.
  • v. To talk at length.
  • n. A game of curling.

spit

  • n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
  • n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
  • n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
  • v. To impale on a spit.
  • v. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
  • v. To spade; to dig.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
  • v. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
  • v. (transitive) To utter violently.
  • v. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, utter.
  • n. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
  • n. (countable) An instance of spitting.

striker

  • n. An individual who is on strike.
  • n. Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
  • n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…
  • n. (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
  • n. (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
  • n. (obsolete) A harpoon.
  • n. (obsolete) A harpooner.
  • n. (obsolete) A wencher; a lewd man.
  • n. (obsolete, politics) A blackmailer in politics.
  • n. (obsolete, politics) One whose political influence can be bought.

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