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1.nounThe flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
2.nounThis organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−"cold tongue with mustard"
3.noun(metonym) A language."He was speaking in his native tongue."
4.nounSpeakers of a language, collectively.
5.nounVoice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
6.nounManner of speaking, often habitually.
7.noun(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
8.nounThe power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
9.nounDiscourse; fluency of speech or expression.
10.nounDiscourse; fluency of speech or expression.
11.nounHonourable discourse; eulogy.
12.noun(often in the plural) Glossolalia.
13.nounIn a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
14.nounAny large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
15.nounA projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
16.nounA long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
17.nounThe pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
18.nounThe clapper of a bell.
19.nounAn individual point of flame from a fire.
20.nounA small sole (type of fish).
21.nounA short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
22.nounA reed.
23.nounA division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
24.verbOn a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive)."Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece."
25.verbTo manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
26.verbTo protrude in relatively long, narrow sections."a soil horizon that tongues into clay"
27.verbTo join by means of a tongue and groove."to tongue boards together"
28.verbTo talk; to prate.
29.verbTo speak; to utter.
30.verbTo chide; to scold.