Tongue (disambiguation)

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Tongue most generally refers to the muscle on the floor of the mouth. By analogy or other figure of speech it can also refer to:

• Part of a shoe that covers the foot underneath the laces
• Part of a trailer tow hitch attachment
• Any large or long physical protrusion on a machine part that fits into a groove or gland on another part
• The striking implement suspended within a Bell (instrument), also known as a clapper.
• Protrusive landform caused by the flow of ice (in a glacier) or lava
• Language or speech, as in the phrase mother tongue
• Tongue (Knights Hospitaller), one of the seven, later eight regional subgroupings, or langues of the Knights of Saint John
• Tongue (foodstuff)
• "Speaking in tongues", formally known as glossolalia, is the vocalizing of speech-like syllables, often as part of religious practice.

Place names

• Tongue, Highland, a village on the north coast of Scotland
• Tongue, Mali
• Tongue of the Ocean, an oceanic trench in the Bahamas
• Tongue River (Montana), river in Montana, United States
• Tongue River (North Dakota), river in North Dakota, United States
• Tongue Wash, a wash in Nevada, United States

People

• Alan Tongue (b. 1980), rugby league player from Australia
• Carole Tongue, 20th century European Parliament politician
• Nicholas Tongue (b. 1973), swimmer from New Zealand
• Reggie Tongue (b. 1973), football player in the NFL, United States
• Thomas H. Tongue (1844-1903), Congressman from Oregon, United States
• Thomas Tongue (1912-1994), jurist from Oregon, United States

Media and entertainment

• Tongues (play), a 1978 play by Sam Shepard
• "Tongue" (song), a 1994 single by R.E.M.
• "Tongue", a song by Seether from Karma and Effect
• "Tongues", a song from the album Termination Bliss by Deathstars
• Tongues (Esham album), an album by Esham
• Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album), an album by Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid

See also

• Tong (disambiguation)
• Tung (disambiguation)
• Tang (disambiguation)
• Tongue and groove
• Glossolalia ("speaking in tongues")
• Angelic tongues, Second Temple Judaism
• Gene Simmons' Tongue, a magazine that ran for five issues in 2002