tongue
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(verb) lick or explore with the tongue |
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Related Words: lap, lick |
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(verb) articulate by tonguing, as on wind instruments |
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Related Words: double tongue, play, render, spiel, triple-tongue |
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(noun) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot |
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Related Words: flap |
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(noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity |
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Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua |
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Related Words: organ |
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(noun) a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue" |
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Related Words: delivery, manner of speaking, sharp tongue, speech |
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(noun) the tongue of certain animals used as meat |
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Related Words: beef tongue, calf's tongue, organs, variety meat |
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(noun) any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark" |
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Synonyms: knife |
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Related Words: projection |
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(noun) metal piece that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side |
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Synonyms: clapper |
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Related Words: striker |
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(noun) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language |
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Synonyms: natural language |
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Related Words: Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Austronesian language, Basque, Cassite, Caucasian, Caucasian language, Dravidian, Dravidian language, Dravidic, Elamite, Elamitic, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Hamito-Semitic, Indian, Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Kassite, Khoisan, Khoisan language, Munda-Mon-Khmer, Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language, Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language, Papuan, Papuan language, Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language, Susian, Ural-Altaic, creole, first language, interlanguage, interlingua, language, linguistic communication, maternal language, mother tongue, tonal language, tone language |
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(noun) a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea |
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Synonyms: spit |
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Related Words: cape, ness |
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