About The Word Speak

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Speak

Speak Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Speak?
[v] express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
[v] exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" [v] use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [v] give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [v] make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke" Synonyms | Synonyms for Speak: address | mouth | talk | utter | verbalise | verbalize Related Terms | Find terms related to Speak: See Also | babble | bark | bay | begin | blab | blabber | blaze away | blubber | blubber out | blunder out | blurt | blurt out | bumble | butterfly | cackle | carry on | chant | chat up | chatter | cheek | clack | communicate | continue | converse | coquet | coquette | dally | deliver | discourse | dissertate | dogmatise | dogmatize | drone | drone on | ejaculate | enthuse | falter | flirt | gabble | generalise | generalize | gibber | go on | gossip | gulp | harangue | hiss | inflect | intercommunicate | intone | jabber | jaw | keynote | level | lip off | mash | maunder | memorialise | memorialize | modulate | monologuise | monologuize | mouth off | mumble | murmur | mussitate | mutter | open up | orate | palaver | philander | phonate | piffle | pontificate | prate | prattle | present | proceed | rabbit on | rant | rap | rasp | rattle on | rave | read | romance | run on | shoot one's mouth off | shout | sibilate | sing | siss | sizz | slang | slur | smatter | snap | snarl | snivel | soliloquise | soliloquize | sound | speak | speak for | speak in tongues | speak up | spiel | spout | stammer | stutter | swallow | talk about | talk down | talk of | talk turkey | tattle | tittle-tattle | troll | twaddle | vocalise | vocalize | whiff | whine | whisper | yack | yack away | yap away Speak In Webster's Dictionary \Speak\, v. i. [imp. {Spoke}({Spake}Archaic); p. p.
{Spoken}({Spoke}, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Speaking}.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to
OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG.
sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj to crackle, to
thunder. Cf. {Spark} of fire, {Speech}.]
1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to
express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so
obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Till at the last spake in this manner. --Chaucer.
Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. --1 Sam. iii.
9.
2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set,
as the tradesmen speak. --Boyle.
An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a
knave is not. --Shak.
During the century and a half which followed the
Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English
history. --Macaulay.
3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a
public assembly formally.
Many of the nobility made themselves popular by
speaking in Parliament against those things which
were most grateful to his majesty. --Clarendon.
4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
Lycan speaks of a part of C[ae]sar's army that came
to him from the Leman Lake. --Addison.
5. To give sound; to sound.
Make all our trumpets speak. --Shak.
6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by
utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
Thine eye begins to speak. --Shak.
{To speak of}, to take account of, to make mention of.
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
{To speak out}, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to
speak unreservedly.
{To speak well for}, to commend; to be favorable to.
{To speak with}, to converse with. ``Would you speak with
me?'' --Shak.
Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate;
pronounce; utter.
\Speak\, v. t. 1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. --Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense. 3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. --Shak. Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. --Tennyson. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. --Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. --Sir W. Scott. 4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. --Chaucer. 5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. --Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. --Emerson. {To speak a ship} (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander. |
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