Speech
31speech — n. address, talk 1) to deliver, give, make a speech 2) to ad lib, improvise a speech 3) a boring; brief, short; impromptu, unrehearsed; long; long winded; passionate; rambling; rousing, stirring speech 4) an acceptance; after dinner; campaign;… …
32Speech — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Speech >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 speech speech faculty of speech Sgm: N 1 locution locution talk parlance verbal intercourse prolation oral communication word of mouth parole palaver prattle …
33speech */*/*/ — UK [spiːtʃ] / US [spɪtʃ] noun Word forms speech : singular speech plural speeches 1) [countable] a formal occasion when someone speaks to an audience He began his speech by outlining his plans for the coming year. make/give/deliver a speech: The… …
34speech — n. 1 the faculty or act of speaking. 2 a formal public address. 3 a manner of speaking (a man of blunt speech). 4 a remark (after this speech he was silent). 5 the language of a nation, region, group, etc. 6 Mus. the act of sounding in an organ… …
35speech — Synonyms and related words: ESP, address, after dinner speech, alliteration, allocution, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, answer, answering, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis,… …
36speech — [[t]spitʃ[/t]] n. 1) the faculty or power of speaking; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds 2) the act of speaking 3) something that is spoken; an utterance 4) a form of communication in spoken language, made by a… …
37speech*/*/*/ — [spiːtʃ] noun 1) [C] a formal occasion when someone speaks to an audience, or the words that someone speaks to an audience He began his speech with a joke.[/ex] She writes most of the president s speeches.[/ex] She made a wonderful speech.[/ex]… …
38speech — noun 1) he doesn t have the power of speech Syn: speaking, talking, verbal expression, verbal communication 2) her speech was slurred Syn: diction, elocution, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation; utterance, wor …
39speech — noun 1) the power of speech Syn: speaking, talking, verbal expression, verbal communication 2) her speech was slurred Syn: diction, elocution, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, delivery …
40speech — Freedom of speech is right guaranteed by First Amendment, U.S.Const. See also commercial speech doctrine freedom of speech liberty symbolic speech …
