What's the difference between broadside and spoken?

Broadside


Definition:

  • (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
  • (n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
  • (n.) A volley of abuse or denunciation.
  • (n.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ran one forecast in full, a none- too-subtle broadside at his editors.
  • (2) So, all of her recent press- and liberal-friendly broadsides against Wall Street aside, Warren says she is still “not running for president” .
  • (3) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
  • (4) May delivered an unexpected broadside against the EU on Wednesday afternoon, claiming the European commission and unnamed officials had been trying through various means to meddle in the UK election campaign.
  • (5) China's government and media have launched a broadside against Japan's move to loosen the bonds on its powerful military, casting it as a threat to Asian security.
  • (6) That is not just bravado talk.” O’Neill fired a broadside at the Italian referee, Nicola Rizzoli, who had been praised by the Scotland manager, Gordon Strachan .
  • (7) Pamphlets, broadsides and circulars were the order of the day.
  • (8) Instead we received a broadside against the great British literature that the rest of the world celebrates.
  • (9) In the latest broadside against the UK's energy companies, Ofgem's chief executive Andrew Wright is expected to tell the six largest power suppliers to do the right thing and ensure customers get their money back.
  • (10) Seventy-three percent and 67% of the victims in broadside and head-on collisions, respectively, had aortic lacerations at the classic site.
  • (11) It is time for Fifa to stop attacking the messenger and instead consider, and understand, the message.” On Monday Blatter toured the Asian and African confederations and, to huge acclaim, launched a broadside against those who he said were trying “destroy” Fifa, suggesting that there was a “racist and discriminatory” agenda behind the latest wave of corruption claims over the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
  • (12) Save Our Money, an anti-euro broadside by Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former boss of the German equivalent of the CBI, argues for splitting the currency north and south, strong and weak.
  • (13) Whatever the Americans say, Karzai's latest broadside looks like the beginning of an increasingly problematic, dangerous countdown to April's presidential election, which features no obvious successor and far too many unsettling echoes of the pre-2001 past.
  • (14) However, yesterday's broadside from Mr Gore increases the pressure on the White House to offer a fuller explanation of its decisions.
  • (15) However, the viscous absorption coefficient at 1 MHz for a spheroidally shaped RBC oscillating broadside and edgewise to an acoustic field is about 40% and 136%, respectively, of that for a spherically shaped RBC.
  • (16) On the eve of the announcement Microsoft - which began selling its own music player, the Zune, last year - launched a broadside at its competitor.
  • (17) In an unusually candid broadside, Zarif argued that Saudi Arabia fears a normalisation of relations between Iran and the west could leave it exposed.
  • (18) Two retired law lords, Devlin and Scarman, fired broadsides at so seismic a constitutional shift.
  • (19) On Wednesday the British prime minister had delivered an unexpected broadside against the EU , claiming the European commission and unnamed officials had been trying through various means to meddle in the UK general election campaign.
  • (20) Well-known for his scathing line on fellow rock musicians, Noel Gallagher has aimed a rather more unexpected broadside at imaginative writing, branding the art of fiction "a waste of fucking time".

Spoken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Speak
  • (a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
  • (a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (3) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
  • (4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (5) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
  • (6) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
  • (7) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
  • (8) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
  • (9) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
  • (10) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
  • (11) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (12) He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations.
  • (13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
  • (14) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
  • (15) Other defendants had earlier spoken of a more difficult time in prison, with one claiming to journalists from inside the defendants' cage that they had almost all been tortured.
  • (16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (17) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
  • (18) I have always spoken to the police and had interesting discussions with them.
  • (19) Since joining, he has spoken at a conference, learnt how to make an animated film and plans to start his own peer-support group.
  • (20) The Observer of the mid-1950s resembled nothing so much as a giant seminar conducted by the soft-spoken and diffident, yet steely, figure of David Astor.