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Definition: TO TALK OF |
TO TALK OF1. To relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. ``The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.'' --Addison. |
Crosswords: TO TALK OF |
| Specialty definitions using "TO TALK OF": Chien. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO TALK OF": hallucinate ♦ Increpate ♦ Stultiloquence. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Pythagoras | Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will. |
St. Jerome | When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | To talk of meeting the present situation by increasing taxes is a Band-Aid solution which does nothing to cure an illness that's been coming on for half a century--to say nothing of the fact that it poses a real threat to economic recovery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO TALK OF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | elmond vmit (to talk of sg), beszél vmiről (to say sg about sg, to talk about, to talk of sg, to tell about). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay alktay ofay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-k-l-o-o-t-t" | |
-3 letters: afoot, aloft, aloof, float, flota, kloof, loofa, lotto, total. | |
-4 letters: alto, flak, flat, foal, folk, fool, foot, kola, kolo, koto, loaf, loft, loof, look, loot, lota, otto, talk, toft, tola, took, tool, toot. | |
-5 letters: aft, alt, att, fat, kaf, kat, koa, lat, loo, lot, oaf, oak, oat, oft, oka, oot, tao, tat, too. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      54 41 4C 4B      4F 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001100 01001011 00100000 01001111 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   T A L K   O F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0054 0041 004C 004B      004F 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544925435464524940 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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