[tʌŋ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech

- used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking
(e.g: he was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue)

- a strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end

- the free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound

- a long, low promontory of land

- a projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another

- the vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe

- a jet of flame
(e.g: a tongue of flame flashed from the gun)


Phrases:
- find one's tongue
- get one's tongue round
- give tongue
- keep a civil tongue in one's head
- lose one's tongue
- someone's tongue is hanging out
- speak in tongues
- the gift of tongues
- tongue in cheek

Origin:
Old English tunge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Latin lingua

[tʌŋ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue
(e.g: Eugene has worked out the correct tonguing)

- lick or caress with the tongue
(e.g: the other horse tongued every part of the colt's mane)


Phrases:
- find one's tongue
- get one's tongue round
- give tongue
- keep a civil tongue in one's head
- lose one's tongue
- someone's tongue is hanging out
- speak in tongues
- the gift of tongues
- tongue in cheek

Origin:
Old English tunge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Latin lingua