Last Updated：2025/11/19

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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

tongue

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Source Word

tongue

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tʌŋ/

intransitive transitive slang obsolete

(music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

Japanese Meaning

管楽器演奏において、舌を用いて、一音を開始する奏法。 / 音を発する際に、舌で叩くような動作により空気の流れを制御する行為。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

フルートの冒頭のフレーズをタンギングするため、彼女は各音の開始を素早く「トゥ」のような音で区切って吹いた。

Sense（1）

(music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

Sense（3）

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

a soil horizon that tongues into clay

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Sense（4）

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

to tongue boards together

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Sense（5）

(intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.

Sense（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.

’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen

Tongue and brain not;

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Sense（7）

(transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.

How might she tongue me!

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tongues

（ present singular third-person ）

tonguing

（ participle present ）

tongued

（ participle past ）

tongued

（ past ）

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