ALL meanings of talk down
talk down
T t - transitivephrasal verb talk down speak disparagingly of 1
- verb without object talk down to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry. 1
- verb without object talk down to consult or confer: Talk with your adviser. 1
- verb without object talk down to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip. 1
- verb without object talk down to chatter or prate. 1
- verb without object talk down to employ speech; perform the act of speaking: to talk very softly; to talk into a microphone. 1
- verb without object talk down to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.: The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare. 1
- verb without object talk down to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information: After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked. 1
- verb without object talk down to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals. 1
- verb without object talk down Computers. to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal. 1
- verb without object talk down to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech. 1
- verb with object talk down to express in words; utter: to talk sense. 1
- verb with object talk down to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing: They talk French together for practice. 1
- verb with object talk down to discuss: to talk politics. 1
- verb with object talk down Informal. (used only in progressive tenses) to focus on; signify or mean; talk about: This isn't a question of a few hundred dollars—we're talking serious money. 1
- verb with object talk down to bring, put, drive, influence, etc., by talk: to talk a person to sleep; to talk a person into doing something. 1
- noun talk down the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind. 1
- noun talk down an informal speech or lecture. 1
- noun talk down a conference or negotiating session: peace talks. 1
- noun talk down report or rumor; gossip: There is a lot of talk going around about her. 1
- noun talk down a subject or occasion of talking, especially of gossip: Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood. 1
- noun talk down mere empty speech: That's just a lot of talk. 1
- noun talk down a way of talking: a halting, lisping talk. 1
- noun talk down language, dialect, or lingo. 1
- noun talk down signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism. 1
- idioms talk down talk big, Informal. to speak boastingly; brag: He always talked big, but never amounted to anything. 1
- idioms talk down talk someone's head / ear off, to bore or weary someone by excessive talk; talk incessantly: All I wanted was a chance to read my book, but my seatmate talked my ear off. 1
- idioms talk down talk to death, to impede or prevent the passage of (a bill) through filibustering. to talk to incessantly or at great length. 1
- phrasal verb talk down To talk down someone who is flying an aircraft in an emergency means to give them instructions so that they can land safely. 0
- phrasal verb talk down If someone talks down a particular thing, they make it less interesting, valuable, or likely than it originally seemed. 0
- phrasal verb talk down To talk someone down in negotiations means to persuade them to accept less money than they originally asked for. 0
- verb talk down to behave (towards) in a superior or haughty manner 0
- verb talk down to override (a person or argument) by continuous or loud talking 0
- verb talk down to give instructions to (an aircraft) by radio to enable it to land 0
- noun talk down to silence by talking louder, longer, or more effectively than 0
- noun talk down to aid (a pilot) in landing by giving spoken instructions 0