Definition of "tongue" in английский

noun

The 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.
- But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,
(countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- cold tongue with mustard
Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
(metonymic) A language.
- He was speaking in his native tongue.
(obsolete, synecdochically) The speakers of a language, collectively.
(obsolete) A voice, (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded, How ſhuld a fals lying tung then be rewarded?
(synecdochically, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 4, p. 592, … the drunk, who had been a permanent fixture in that bar, changed location and thereafter moved from bar to bar, saying to inquisitive tongues, Too long a stay in one seat tires the buttocks.
The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
(obsolete) Discourse; the fluency of speech or expression.
(obsolete, uncountable) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
(obsolete) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
(religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
The clapper of a bell.
(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

verb

(music, ambitransitive) On 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.
(transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- a soil horizon that tongues into clay
To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- to tongue boards together
(intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
(transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
(transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.