Young vs Tongue - What's the difference?
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In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
* Daniel De Foe
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, title= As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
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, title= Of or belonging to the early part of life.
(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
* (William Shakespeare)
People who are young; young beings.
The younger generation.
Offspring.
To become or seem to become
* {{quote-book, 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page=5, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=i41qoTaUwegC&pg=PA5
, passage=The aging (or younging ) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).}}
To cause to appear younger
* {{quote-book, 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports
, passage=Medicare data was "younged " by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.}}
(geology) To exhibit younging
* {{quote-journal, 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association, Mineralogy and Petrology, doi=10.1007/BF01159725
, passage=Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.}}
* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau, Science
, passage=The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas. }}
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.
Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
A language.
The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
* L'Estrange
(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(religion, often in the plural) 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 projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
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.
(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
A small sole (type of fish).
(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
(music) A reed.
(music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
To join by means of a tongue and groove.
(obsolete) To talk; to prate.
(obsolete) To speak; to utter.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To chide; to scold.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun young
is for the younger of two people having the same given name.As a noun tongue is
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.As a verb tongue is
(music|ambitransitive) on a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).young
English
(wikipedia young)Adjective
(er)- while the fears of the people were young
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
Synonyms
* (born not long ago) youthful, junior * (having qualities of a young person) youthful, juvenile * (of or belonging to the early part of life) juvenile * (inexperienced) underdeveloped, undeveloped, immatureAntonyms
* (born not long ago) old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly * (having qualities of a young person) aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly * (of or belonging to the early part of life) senior, mature , elderly * (inexperienced) mature, experienced, veteranDerived terms
* bright young thing * eat one's young * sweet young thing * the night is young * the good die young * with young * young adult * young at heart * young blood * young buck * you can't put an old head on young shoulders * young fogey * young gun * youngish * young lady * younglet * younglike * youngling * youngly * youngness * youngsterNoun
(-)- The lion caught a gnu to feed its young .
Verb
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* 1000 English basic wordstongue
English
(wikipedia tongue)Alternative forms
* tounge (obsolete, now considered a misspelling''); tung (''informal/eye dialect ); tong, tonge, toong, toongue, toung, toungue, tunge (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He was speaking in his native tongue .
- The poem was written in her native tongue .
- parrots imitating human tongue
- Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
- She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honour.
- the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
Synonyms
* (language) language, lingo (colloquial)Verb
- Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
- a soil horizon that tongues into clay
- to tongue boards together
- (Dryden)
- such stuff as madmen tongue
- How might she tongue me.
