1. tongue - Noun
2. tongue - Verb
3. Tongue - Proper noun
an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
The power of articulate utterance; speech.
Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Honorable discourse; eulogy.
A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
A people having a distinct language.
The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
The lingua of an insect.
Any small sole.
That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
A 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.
Same as Reed, n., 5.
To speak; to utter.
To chide; to scold.
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
To talk; to prate.
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAccording to Halliday, as the child moves into the mother tongue, these functions give way to the generalized "metafunctions" of language. Source: Internet
According to the Rule, there are three components to mortification: "not to disagree in mind, not to speak as one pleases with the tongue, not to go anywhere with complete freedom." Source: Internet
According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them. Source: Internet
According to the results of the 2013 census, 52.86% of the population consider their mother tongue to be Bosnian, 30.76% Serbian, 14.6% Croatian and 1.57% another language, with 0.21% not giving an answer. Source: Internet
Additionally, in terms of control, humans are generally able to control the movements of their tongue and mouth. Source: Internet
A drag queen playfully stick out his tongue during the "Banda de Ipanema" street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Source: Internet