English-Spanish translations for tongue

• lengua
  Ahora pasaré a mi lengua materna. I shall now use my mother tongue.
  Continuaré ahora en mi lengua materna. I shall continue in my mother tongue.
  Ahora continuaré en mi lengua materna. I shall now continue in my mother tongue.
• idioma
  El uso del idioma materno debe ser posible para cualquier ciudadano. It must be possible for all citizens to use their mother tongue.
  Hay que garantizar a las ciudadanas y ciudadanos su derecho fundamental a acceder a la información en su idioma materno europeo. The people must be guaranteed their basic right of access to information in their European mother tongue.
  Sin embargo, ambas creemos que deberían ser los Estados miembros los que decidan hasta qué punto se enseña el idioma materno. However, we both believe that it should be the Member States that decide the extent of mother tongue teaching.
• lengüeta
• sinhueso

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