| 单词 | tongue |
| 释义 | tongue (once / 87 pages) 1nv 2n 3n Your tongue is the muscle in your mouth that you press against your teeth in order to speak, as well the home of your taste buds. What a useful member of the body! Tongue supposedly came from the Latin word lingua, meaning "language," but you can't hear the similarity because we pronounce it TUNG, keeping the "ue" silent. A tongue can be anything shaped like your tongue. The flap of leather under your shoelaces is called a tongue, and so is the striker inside a bell. Tongue also means language, like the German tongue, or the Cajun tongue. As a verb, tongue means "lick," as in when the dog tongues your empty plate. WORD FAMILYtongue: tongued, tongueless, tonguelike, tongues, tonguing USAGE EXAMPLESTo save Mr. Muñiz’s life, surgeons removed his tongue and his lower jaw and cut a hole through his esophagus. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Tongues wagged - wasn't the whole thing a little too tacky, a little too American? BBC(Dec 30, 2016) The droplets dart across it like shooting stars that crash against your tongue. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity Syn|Hyper clapper, glossa, lingua organ a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function articulatora movable speech organ 2n the tongue of certain animals used as meat Hypo|Hyper beef tongue the tongue of a cow eaten as meat calf's tonguethe tongue of a calf eaten as meat organs, variety meat edible viscera of a butchered animal 3v lick or explore with the tongue Hyper lap, lick pass the tongue over 4v articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments 2Hypo|Hyper double tongue, triple-tongue play fast notes on a wind instrument play, spiel replay (as a melody) 1n a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper natural language artificial language a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose first language, maternal language, mother tongue one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next tonal language, tone languagea language in which different tones distinguish different meanings creolea mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Indianany of the languages spoken by Amerindians Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut languagethe family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut Chukchi, Chukchi languagean indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan languagethe family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia Austro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic language, Munda-Mon-Khmera family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia Hmong, Hmong language, Miaoa language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong Austronesian, Austronesian languagethe family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia Papuan, Papuan languageany of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages Khoisan, Khoisan languagea family of languages spoken in southern Africa Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittitethe family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia Ural-Altaica (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian) Basquethe language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language Elamite, Elamitic, Susianan extinct ancient language of unknown affinities; spoken by the Elamites Cassite, Kassitean ancient language spoken by the Kassites Caucasian, Caucasian languagea number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere Dravidian, Dravidian language, Dravidica large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, Hamito-Semitica large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian languagethe family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula) Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan languagea family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania contour languagea tone language that uses pitch changes register languagea tone language that uses different voice registers Haitian Creolea creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquinfamily of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Atakapa, Atakapan, Attacapa, Attacapana language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan languagea group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) Muskhogean, Muskhogean language, Muskogean, Muskogean languagea family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States Na-Denea family of North American Indian languages Mosana family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia Caddo, Caddoan, Caddoan languagea family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquoisa family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois Kechua, Kechuan, Quechua, Quechuan, Quechuan languagethe language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas Maracan language, Maracothe language spoken by the Maraco Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani languagea family of South American Indian languages Arawak, Arawakana family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America Carib, Caribbean languagethe family of languages spoken by the Carib Eskimo, Esquimauthe language spoken by the Eskimo Aleutthe language spoken by the Aleut Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan languagea family of American Indian languages Maya, Mayan, Mayan languagea family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya Siouan, Siouan languagea family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux Tanoan, Tanoan languagea family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States Hoka, Hokana family of Amerindian languages spoken in California Penutiana family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California Altaic, Altaic languagea group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe Sinitic, Sinitic languagea group of Sino-Tibetan languages Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman languagea branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula Kadai, Kadai language, Kam-Taia family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia Mundaa family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India Mon-Khmera branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages Malayo-Polynesian, Polynesianthe branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific Aboriginal Australian, Australianthe Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines Formosanthe Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa Hottentot, Khoikhoi, Khoikhoinany of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa PIE, Proto-Indo Europeana prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages Albanianthe Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania Armenian, Armenian languagethe Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan Illyriana minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast Thraco-Phrygianan extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonica family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages Germanic, Germanic languagea branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic Uralic, Uralic languagea family of Ural-Altaic languages Celtic, Celtic languagea branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era Italic, Italic languagea branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative Tochariana branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D. Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian languagethe branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups Anatolian, Anatolian languagean extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic languagethe Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages Chechena northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen Circassiana northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian Georgiana southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition Ubykhan extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey South Dravidiana Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India South-Central Dravidiana Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India Central Dravidiana Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India North Dravidiana Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India Chad, Chadic, Chadic languagea family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa Semitica major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family Hamitic, Hamitic languagea group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic Egyptianthe ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC Berbera cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco Cushitica group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions Omotica group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages Kordofaniana group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan Niger-Congoa family of African language spoken in west Africa Chari-Nilea group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania Saharana Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad Songhaia Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger language, linguistic communication a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols 2n a manner of speaking 3he spoke with a thick tongue she has a glib tongue Hypo|Hyper sharp tongue a bitter or critical manner of speaking delivery, manner of speaking, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally 1n a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea Syn|Hyper spit cape, ness a strip of land projecting into a body of water 2n the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot Hyper flap any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely 3n metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side Syn|Hyper clapper striker the part of a mechanical device that strikes something 4n any long thin projection that is transient tongues of flame licked at the walls Syn|Hyper knife projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
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