tongue

lengua

Parte blanda de la boca que permite saborear, hablar y tragar.

En inglés sencillo: The soft part inside your mouth that helps you taste, speak, and swallow.

• My tongue feels sore.
• She burned her tongue on the hot soup.
• The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue.

Expresiones frecuentes: stick your tongue, bite your tongue, tip of tongue

lengua, idioma

Una lengua, sobre todo la que una persona aprendió de pequeña.

En inglés sencillo: A language, especially the one someone learned as a child.

• English is her mother tongue.
• They spoke to each other in their native tongue.
• He could read several ancient tongues.

Sinónimos: language

Expresiones frecuentes: native tongue, mother tongue, foreign tongue

lengua

Lengua de un animal, especialmente de vaca, preparada para comer.

En inglés sencillo: The mouth part of an animal, especially a cow, prepared and eaten as meat.

• We had tongue for lunch.
• She served cold tongue with mustard.
• The butcher sells beef tongue on Fridays.

Expresiones frecuentes: beef tongue, cold tongue, sliced tongue

lengüeta

Pieza del zapato situada bajo los cordones que cubre la parte superior del pie.

En inglés sencillo: The piece of material under the laces of a shoe, covering the top of your foot.

• The shoe’s tongue slipped sideways.
• These boots have thick, padded tongues.
• Straighten the tongue before you tie your laces.

Sinónimos: flap

Expresiones frecuentes: shoe tongue, padded tongue, leather tongue

extenderse

Extenderse hacia otra zona formando salientes largos y estrechos.

En inglés sencillo: To extend into another area in long, narrow shapes.

• The soil layer tongues into clay.
• A thin deposit tongued into the surrounding rock.
• Several sandy layers tongue through the darker soil.

Cómo se usa: tongue into something (The sandy layer tongues into the clay beneath it.)

Sinónimos: extend, project

Expresiones frecuentes: tongue into something, tongue through something

machihembrar

Unir piezas de madera encajando un borde saliente y estrecho en una ranura correspondiente.

En inglés sencillo: To join pieces of wood using a narrow raised edge that fits into a matching cut.

• The carpenter tongued the boards together.
• We need to tongue these floorboards before fitting them.
• She carefully tongued the edges to make a firm joint.

Expresiones frecuentes: tongue boards together, tongue the edges