Traffic vs Talk - What's the difference?
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Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
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Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Commodities of the market.
* John Gay
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
A conversation or discussion.
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(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.
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(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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Traffic is a related term of talk.
As nouns the difference between traffic and talk
is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while talk is talc.As a verb traffic
is to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.traffic
English
(wikipedia traffic)Alternative forms
* traffickNoun
(-)- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
* traffic boy * traffic jamVerb
(traffick)References
*talk
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* 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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