speech
IPA: spˈitʃ
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.
Examples of "speech" in Sentences
- The president delivered a speech.
- The speaker equivocated the speech.
- The professor's speech was unprofessional.
- Suze says in the speech that the models are purposely ugly.
- He may say the reprise of the speech at the end of the film.
- Seditious speech is speech directed at the overthrow of government.
- Others say his characters just deliver long, boring speeches on esoterica.
- To stutter is to speak with the speech of someone with the speech disorder.
- She claims that free speech purists were offended by Barack Obama's comments.
- The assistant will repeat what the caller with the speech disability is saying.
- Tommy's face was white, and he sought refuge in speech from the silence which settled down.
- Children who are taught that certain speech is not allowed, learn that certain speech is not allowed.
- Strait points out that scientists already know that emotion in speech is carried less by the specific meanings of the words being used than by the sound of those words.
- Not because I agreed with it, but because I am deeply concerned that the effort to label certain speech "hate speech" is part of a general campaign to limit first amendment rights.
- However, a speech sound localized in the brain, even when associated with the particular movements of the speech organs that are required to produce it, is very far from being an element of language.
- Within speech acts, Austin distinguished among locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary levels, but speech act theory has been devoted almost exclusively to the illocutionary level, so that ˜speech act™ and ˜illocutionary act™ are in practice synonymous terms.
- At issue is whether or not the FEC went too far in interpreting the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act when it ruled Hillary: The Movie to be campaign speech, advocacy about a particular candidate, instead of the allowed political speech, advocacy on a topic, thus limiting the \ "freedom of speech\" of corporations.
- The very simplest element of speechand by speech we shall henceforth mean the auditory system of speech symbolism, the flow of spoken wordsis the individual sound, though, as we shall see later on, the sound is not itself a simple structure but the resultant of a series of independent, yet closely correlated, adjustments in the organs of speech.