Meanings

conversation

getting back to the subject at hand, ...

talking quietly

funny story

moral discourse

long-distance call

mobile phone

friendly talk

fairy tale

public telephone

lecture

fiction

talking with gestures

telephone threat (e.g. of a bomb)

finger language

telephone made from two cans and a piece of string

true story

Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty)

to talk

to call by the phone