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1. Oxford Dictionary

   tongue

   • IPA[tʌŋ]

   英式

   • n.
     the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.；the equivalent organ in other vertebrates, sometimes used (in snakes) as a scent organ or (in chameleons) for catching food.
   • v.
     sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue；lick or caress with the tongue

   • verb: tongue, 3rd person present: tongues, gerund or present participle: tonguing, past tense: tongued, past participle: tongued

   • noun: tongue, plural noun: tongues

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.
   • ▪ the equivalent organ in other vertebrates, sometimes used (in snakes) as a scent organ or (in chameleons) for catching food.
   • ▪ an analogous organ in insects, formed from some of the mouthparts and used in feeding.
   • ▪ the tongue of an ox or lamb as food a galantine of tongue
   • 2. used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking he was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue 同義詞 way/manner of speaking, way/manner of talking, form/mode of expression, choice of words, verbal expression, ... 更多conversation, vocabulary, phraseology, style, parlance, speech, façon de parler
   • ▪ a particular language the girls were singing in their native tongue 同義詞 language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, ... 更多native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, pidgin, creole, lingua franca, speech, parlance, informallingo, patter
   • 3. a strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end.
   • ▪ the pin of a buckle.
   • 4. the free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.
   • 5. a long, low promontory of land.
   • 6. a projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.
   • 7. the vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe.
   • 8. a jet of flame a tongue of flame flashed from the gun

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue Eugene has worked out the correct tonguing
   • 2. lick or caress with the tongue the other horse tongued every part of the colt's mane

   片語

   • find one's tongue
   • get one's tongue round
   • the gift of tongues
   • give tongue
   • keep a civil tongue in one's head
   • lose one's tongue
   • speak in tongues
   • tongue in cheek
   • someone's tongue is hanging out