Adder's-tongue
(n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. |
Adder's-tongue
(n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
Bird's-tongue
(n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Contact
(n.) A close union or junction of bodies |
Contact
(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. |
Contact
(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. |
Deer's-tongue
(n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. |
Dog's-tongue
(n.) Hound's-tongue. |
Double-tongue
(n.) Deceit |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Hart-tongue
(n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. |
Hart-tongue
(n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
Hound's-tongue
(n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. |
Long-tongue
(n.) The wryneck. |
Snake's-tongue
(n.) Same as Adder's-tongue. |
Tongue
(n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. |
Tongue
(n.) The power of articulate utterance |
Tongue
(n.) Discourse |
Tongue
(n.) Honorable discourse |
Tongue
(n.) A language |
Tongue
(n.) Speech |
Tongue
(n.) A people having a distinct language. |
Tongue
(n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. |
Tongue
(n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. |
Tongue
(n.) The lingua of an insect. |
Tongue
(n.) Any small sole. |
Tongue
(n.) That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. |
Tongue
(n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture |
Tongue
(n.) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove. |
Tongue
(n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake. |
Tongue
(n.) The pole of a vehicle |
Tongue
(n.) The clapper of a bell. |
Tongue
(n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. |
Tongue
(n.) Same as Reed, n., 5. |
Tongue
(v. t.) To speak |
Tongue
(v. t.) To chide |
Tongue
(v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. |
Tongue
(v. t.) To join means of a tongue and grove |
Tongue
(v. i.) To talk |
Tongue
(v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. |
Tongue-pad
(n.) A great talker. |
Tongue-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a tongue |
Tongue-shell
(n.) Any species of Lingula. |
Tongue-tie
(n.) Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. |
Tongue-tie
(v. t.) To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation. |
Tongue-tied
(a.) Destitute of the power of distinct articulation |
Tongue-tied
(a.) Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. |
| contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
| eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact
physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
| contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
tongue worm
pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
tonguefish
tongue-fish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point, of little commercial value |
| bull tongue | a heavy plow with a single wide blade, used chiefly in cotton fields |
clapper
tongue | metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side |
contact
tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
| contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
| contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
egg-and-dart
egg-and-anchor
egg-and-tongue | a decorative molding, a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape |
| electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
| tongue | the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot |
| tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
| tongue depressor | a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat |
wiper wiper arm
contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
tongue
lingua
glossa
clapper | a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
chiding
scolding
objurgation
tongue-lashingcd | rebuking a person harshly |
| slip of the tongue | an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking |
| eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
natural language
tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
mother tongue
maternal language
first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
| tongue | a manner of speaking, he spoke with a thick tongue, she has a glib tongue |
| sharp tongue | a bitter or critical manner of speaking |
| tongue twister | an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly, `rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister |
| contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
contact
impinging
striking | the physical coming together of two or more things, contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull |
| tongue | the tongue of certain animals used as meat |
| beef tongue | the tongue of a cow eaten as meat |
| calf's tongue | the tongue of a calf eaten as meat |
spit
tongue | a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea |
contact
middleman | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance, he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor |
devil's tongue
snake palm
umbrella arum
Amorphophallus rivieri | foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix |
dumb cane
mother-in-law plant
mother-in-law's tongue Dieffenbachia sequine | an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves, contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name |
tongueflower
tongue-flower | orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base |
yellow adder's tongue
trout lily
amberbell
Erythronium americanum | eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors |
mother-in-law's tongue snake plant
Sansevieria trifasciata | stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant |
| hound's-tongue Cynoglossum officinale | biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers |
| hound's-tongue Cynoglossum virginaticum | perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers |
painted tongue
Salpiglossis sinuata | Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat |
adder's tongue
adder's tongue fern | ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue |
Florida strap fern
cow-tongue fern
hart's-tongue fern | common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves, Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay |
felt fern
tongue fern
Pyrrosia lingua
Cyclophorus lingua | east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues, sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus |
hart's-tongue
hart's-tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium
Phyllitis scolopendrium | Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds |
hart's-tongue hart's-tongue fern Olfersia cervina
Polybotrya cervina
Polybotria cervina | tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds, sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya |
earthtongue
earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
catalysis
contact action | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction, of the topcommodity chemicals,are created directly by catalysis and another are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced |
tongue
knife | any long thin projection that is transient, tongues of flame licked at the walls, rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark |