Talk vs Debate - What's the difference?
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A conversation or discussion.
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, title= A lecture.
(preceded by the) A major topic of social discussion.
(not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, chapter=5 (informal) To discuss.
(slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
To gossip; to create scandal.
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, title= (obsolete) Strife, discord.
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
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, title= (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in .
(ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
* Tatler
(obsolete) To fight.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
(obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
* Prescott
(lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
As nouns the difference between talk and debate
is that talk is talc while debate is (obsolete) strife, discord.As a verb debate is
(ambitransitive) to participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.talk
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Synonyms
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* all talk * baby talk * betalk * big talk * boy talk * chalk talk/chalk and talk * cross talk/crosstalk * dirty talk * girl talk * happy talk * idle talk * man talk * peace talk * pep talk * pillow talk * self-talk * shop talk * side talk * sleep talk * small talk * table talk * talk battery * talk bomb * talk is cheap * talk of the town * talk page * talk radio * talk show * talk the talk * talkback * talkie * walk and talk * walk the talk * walkie-talkieVerb
(en verb)- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk', really '''talk'''. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He ' talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
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Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Synonyms
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* listenDerived terms
* bad-talk * double-talk * fast-talk * look who's talking * now you're talking * sleep-talk * sweet-talk * talk a blue streak * talk a mile a minute * talk about * talk around * talkative * talk back * talk cock * talk dirty * talk down * talker * talk in circles * talk into * talk like an apothecary * talk of * talk of the devil * talk one's way out of * talk out of turn * talk over * talk sense * talk shit/talk shite * talk shop * talk smack * talk someone's ear off * talk someone under the table * talk the talk * talk through one's hat * talk to the hand * talk trash * talk turkey * talk up * talky * trash-talk * you can talkStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----debate
English
Noun
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
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In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Verb
(debat)- a wise council that did debate this business
- Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
- Volunteers thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.