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TALKING TO
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lengthy rebuke
Example:
the teacher gave him a talking to
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("talking to" is a kind of...):
rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "talking to"):
preaching; sermon (a moralistic rebuke)
curtain lecture (a private lecture to a husband by his wife)
Context examples:
Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) Sitting and talking to someone.
(ESS - Sitting and Talking to Someone, NCI Thesaurus)
She was talking to the woman behind the counter.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is talking to young Lord Blandford who gave £1800 for a Boccaccio the other day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That's what I have been talking to you, sir—scientific gibberish!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I thought she'd suit Brooke, but he keeps talking to Meg, and Kate just stares at them through that ridiculous glass of hers.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What an odd thing that is! said one: there is a cart going along, and I hear a carter talking to the horse, but yet I can see no one.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He had a way of talking to each and doing everybody some particular service.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You can get started by talking to your relatives about their health.
(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at once.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the morning, however, as soon as it was light, I went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the vessel, apparently talking to someone in the sea.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
