tongue

Verb

• lick or explore with the tongue

• articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Noun

• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

• the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

• the tongue of certain animals used as meat

• a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

• a manner of speaking
  • he spoke with a thick tongue
    
  • she has a glib tongue
    

• any long thin projection that is transient
  • tongues of flame licked at the walls
    
  • rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
    

• a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clapper , spit , knife , natural language , lingua , glossa