tongue - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• clapper
• tongue

More generic

• striker

Related

• bell

Noun

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

Synonyms

• tongue

More generic

• flap

Related

• boot
• shoe

Noun

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

Synonyms

• clapper
• glossa
• lingua
• tongue

More generic

• articulator
• organ

Related

• gustatory organ
• taste bud
• tastebud

Related

• mouth
• oral cavity
• oral fissure
• pharynx
• rima oris
• throat

Noun

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

Synonyms

• natural language
• tongue

More generic

• language
• linguistic communication

More specific

• Afrasian
• Afrasian language
• Afro-Asiatic
• Afroasiatic
• Afroasiatic language
• American Indian
• American-Indian language
• Amerind
• Amerindian language
• Austro-Asiatic
• Austro-Asiatic language
• Austronesian
• Austronesian language
• Basque
• Cassite
• Caucasian
• Caucasian language
• Chukchi
• Chukchi language
• Dravidian
• Dravidian language
• Dravidic
• Elamite
• Elamitic
• Eskimo-Aleut
• Eskimo-Aleut language
• Hamito-Semitic
• Hmong
• Hmong language
• Indian
• Indo-European
• Indo-European language
• Indo-Hittite
• Kassite
• Khoisan
• Khoisan language
• Miao
• Munda-Mon-Khmer
• Niger-Kordofanian
• Niger-Kordofanian language
• Nilo-Saharan
• Nilo-Saharan language
• Papuan
• Papuan language
• Sino-Tibetan
• Sino-Tibetan language
• Susian
• Ural-Altaic
• creole
• first language
• maternal language
• mother tongue
• tonal language
• tone language

Noun

a manner of speaking

Synonyms

• tongue

More generic

• delivery
• manner of speaking
• speech

More specific

• sharp tongue

Noun

the tongue of certain animals used as meat

Synonyms

• tongue

More generic

• organs
• variety meat

More specific

• beef tongue
• calf's tongue

Noun

a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

Synonyms

• spit
• tongue

More generic

• cape
• ness

Related

• sand

Noun

any long thin projection that is transient

Synonyms

• knife
• tongue

More generic

• projection

Verb

lick or explore with the tongue

Synonyms

• tongue

More generic

• lap
• lick

Verb

articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Synonyms

• tongue

More generic

• play
• spiel

More specific

• double tongue
• triple-tongue

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