| 单词 | tongue |
| 释义 | Word Frequency tongue(tʌŋ) noun 1. a movable mass of muscular tissue attached to the floor of the mouth in most vertebrates. It is the organ of taste and aids the mastication and swallowing of food. In humans it plays an important part in the articulation of speech sounds ▶ Related adjectives: glottic, lingual2. an analogous organ in invertebrates 3. the tongue of certain animals used as food 4. a language, dialect, or idiom the English tongue 5. the ability to speak to lose one's tongue 6. a manner of speaking a glib tongue 7. utterance or voice (esp in the phrase give tongue) 8. (plural) gift of tongues 9. anything which resembles a tongue in shape or function a tongue of flame a tongue of the sea 10. a promontory or spit of land 11. a flap of leather on a shoe, either for decoration or under the laces or buckles to protect the instep 12. music the reed of an oboe or similar instrument 13. the clapper of a bell 14. the harnessing pole of a horse-drawn vehicle 15. a long and narrow projection on a machine or structural part that serves as a guide for assembly or as a securing device 16. a projecting strip along an edge of a board that is made to fit a corresponding groove in the edge of another board 17. hold one's tongue 18. on the tip of one's tongue 19. with one's tongue in one's cheek verbWord forms: tongues, tonguing or tongued 20. to articulate (notes played on a wind instrument) by the process of tonguing 21. (transitive) to lick, feel, or touch with the tongue 22. (transitive) carpentry to provide (a board) with a tongue 23. (intransitive) (of a piece of land) to project into a body of water 24. (transitive) obsolete to reproach; scold Derived forms tongueless (ˈtongueless) adjective tonguelike (ˈtongueˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English tunge; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse tunga, Old High German zunga, Latin lingua |
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