Talk vs Testimony - 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= (legal) statements made by a witness in court.
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, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
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, passage = The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
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An account of first-hand experience.
* Milton
In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
* Bible Mark vi. 11
As nouns the difference between talk and testimony
is that talk is talc while testimony is (legal) statements made by a witness in court.talk
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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 ----testimony
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(wikipedia testimony)Alternative forms
* testimonie (obsolete)Noun
(testimonies)- [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
- When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.