English-French translations for tongue

• langue
  Je vais à présent m'exprimer dans ma langue maternelle. I shall now use my mother tongue.
  Je repasse à ma langue maternelle. I shall continue in my mother tongue.
  Maintenant, je vais continuer dans ma langue maternelle. I shall now continue in my mother tongue.
• langage
  Aujourd'hui, au Parlement aussi, nous tenons un double langage. We are talking with forked tongues today in Parliament too.
  Mais ils doivent s’exprimer avec honnêteté, sans recourir au double langage ou au mensonge. But they must speak with honesty, not using double-speak or with forked tongues.
  Ou faut-il admettre que les membres de cette assemblée tiennent un double langage: l'un au Parlement, et l'autre à Helsinki - en l'occurrence, un langage de soutien aux courants xénophobes? Or is it the case that people can speak with forked tongues, saying one thing here in Parliament and something else in Helsinki - something which supports xenophobic tendencies?
• ardillon
• batail
• battant
• languette
• Tongue
  Nous soutenons totalement l'excellent rapport de Carole Tongue. We absolutely support Carole Tongue's excellent report.
  Mme Tongue a précisé qu'il s'agissait là d'une question politique, ce en quoi je la rejoins entièrement. Ms Tongue has pointed out that this is a political issue and indeed it very much is.
  Monsieur le Président, je salue l'engagement pris par Mme Tongue, ainsi que son éloquence envers cette cause. Mr President, I salute Carole Tongue for her commitment and her eloquence in this cause.

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