speak
IPA: spˈik
noun
- (uncountable) language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
- (countable) Speech, conversation.
- (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
- (countable, informal) Short for speaker point. [Each of the points awarded to an individual speaker in a formal debate for speaking and debating well.]
verb
- (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
- (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
- (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
- (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
- (transitive) To utter.
- (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
- Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
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Examples of "speak" in Sentences
- They speak the Lombard language.
- The language that infants speak is called babbling.
- I can vouchsafe that they are speaking my language.
- Ayanami is able to speak The Raggs language fluently.
- Anyone who goes to hear Sarah Palin speak is a moron.
- I will let the title speak for itself this week folks.
- _This_ -- when I speak, I _don't hint_, but _speak out_.
- "Muslims" in BNP-speak is code for black and Asian people.
- She is of Croatian descent and speaks the language fluently.
- In the heart of followers it speaks the language of thinking.
- Annie_Snyder: We should always use the word speak in quote marks
- Emily was raised speaking French and speaks the language fluently.
- The king speaks or desires to be spoken to in grandiloquent language.
- Adnos listens to the grownups speak and hears the child in them whimper.
- They speak in the Australian vernacular, the common language of the street.
- To speak, is not to think logically; but to _think logically_ is, at the same time, to _speak_.
- _Take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak_.
- And to hear that dumb bimbo Palin speak is like listening to nails scraping across a chalk board! she's so stupid!
- And finally, all the while he is urged to speak, _speak_, _SPEAK_ as he is applying to his own methods, in his own _personal_ way, the principles he has gathered from his own experience and observation and the recorded experiences of others.
- Just when one thought there would be no entertainment value in this convention, the RNC bring us the first of their leaders to bring us the term "nuculer" ... and later this week we will have the great honor to hear the gal who has a great grasp on the term speak, as well.