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ALL meanings of talk over

talk o·ver
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  • noun talk over an informal speech or lecture. 1
  • transitivephrasal verb talk over discuss 1
  • transitivephrasal verb talk over speak more loudly than 1
  • idioms talk over talk to death, to impede or prevent the passage of (a bill) through filibustering. to talk to incessantly or at great length. 1
  • idioms talk over 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 over talk big, Informal. to speak boastingly; brag: He always talked big, but never amounted to anything. 1
  • noun talk over signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism. 1
  • noun talk over language, dialect, or lingo. 1
  • noun talk over a way of talking: a halting, lisping talk. 1
  • noun talk over mere empty speech: That's just a lot of talk. 1
  • noun talk over a subject or occasion of talking, especially of gossip: Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood. 1
  • noun talk over report or rumor; gossip: There is a lot of talk going around about her. 1
  • noun talk over a conference or negotiating session: peace talks. 1
  • verb without object talk over to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry. 1
  • noun talk over the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind. 1
  • verb without object talk over to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information: After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked. 1
  • verb without object talk over to consult or confer: Talk with your adviser. 1
  • verb without object talk over to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip. 1
  • verb without object talk over to chatter or prate. 1
  • verb without object talk over to employ speech; perform the act of speaking: to talk very softly; to talk into a microphone. 1
  • verb without object talk over to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.: The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare. 1
  • verb with object talk over to bring, put, drive, influence, etc., by talk: to talk a person to sleep; to talk a person into doing something. 1
  • verb without object talk over to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals. 1
  • verb without object talk over Computers. to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal. 1
  • verb without object talk over to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech. 1
  • verb with object talk over to express in words; utter: to talk sense. 1
  • verb with object talk over to use (a specified language or idiom) in speaking or conversing: They talk French together for practice. 1
  • verb with object talk over to discuss: to talk politics. 1
  • verb with object talk over 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
  • phrasal verb talk over If you talk something over, you discuss it thoroughly and honestly. 0
  • noun talk over to have a conversation about; discuss 0
  • noun talk over to win (a person) over to one's view by talking; persuade 0
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