English-Danish translations for tongue

• tunge
  Men de skal tale ærligt, ikke tale med to tunger eller med kløvet tunge. But they must speak with honesty, not using double-speak or with forked tongues.
  Hos løsgængerne kommunikerer vi altså ved at klø os under armene, række tunge og udstøde små grynt. Therefore, when we, the non-attached Members, communicate among ourselves, we scratch under our armpits, we stick our tongues out and we make grunting noises.
• sprog
  På samme vis som Æsops sprog kan fonden både være det værste eller det bedste, der findes. Like Aesop's tongue, it could equally be the best or the worst of things.
  I vores skoler er det uundgåeligt, at modersmålet er det officielle sprog, altså det første sprog. In our schools, it is inevitable that the mother tongue is the official language, the first language.
  At tale et andet sprog end sit modersmål er ubestrideligt en garanti for at udvikle ånden. Speaking a language other than one' s mother tongue undoubtedly broadens the mind.
• tungemål
  Jeg vil råde kollegerne til at tage hovedtelefonerne på, for så vil jeg tillade mig ganske kort at tale på vores gamle irske tungemål. I would like to alert colleagues to put on their headphones and permit me briefly to speak in our ancient Irish tongue.

Definition of tongue

• The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech
• A language
• Speakers of a language, collectively
• Voice ; accent
• Manner of speaking, often habitually
• A person speaking in a specified manner (''most often plural''
• The power of articulate utterance; speech generally
• Discourse; fluency of speech or expression
• Honourable discourse; eulogy
• Glossolalia
• In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (''so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth''
• Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part
• A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake
• The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked
• The clapper of a bell
• An individual point of flame from a fire
• A small sole (type of fish
• A reed
• On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'dor 'tsound (alveolar plosive
• To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex
• To join by means of a tongue and groove
• To talk; to prate
• To speak; to utter
• To chide; to scold

Examples

• cold tongue with mustard
• He was speaking in his native tongue.
• the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
• Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
• a soil horizon that tongues into clay
• to tongue boards together