Synonym: language, speech, talk. Similar words: mother tongue, harangue, on guard, tongs, cotton gin, argue, vogue, vague. Meaning: [tʌŋ] 
n. 1. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity 2. a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language 3. any long thin projection that is transient 4. a manner of speaking 5. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea 6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat 7. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot 8. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side. v. 1. articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments 2. lick or explore with the tongue.
n. 1. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity 2. a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language 3. any long thin projection that is transient 4. a manner of speaking 5. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea 6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat 7. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot 8. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side. v. 1. articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments 2. lick or explore with the tongue. 1. Let not your tongue cut your throat. 
2. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none.
3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
4. A good tongue is a good weapon.
5. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
6. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
7. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
8. The head is recognized by the tongue.
9. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
10. When the heart is full, the tongue will speak.
11. The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
12. False tongue will hardly speak truth.
13. The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.
14. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
15. A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
16. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
17. A still tongue makes a wise head.
18. His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clear.
19. Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company.
20. He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere.
21. A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
22. The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts.
23. He that knows not how to hold his tongue knows not how to talk.
24. The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
25. The fool has his heart on his tongue, the wise man keeps his tongue in his heart.
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26. It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none.
27. The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
28. An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue.
29. He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
30. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.