What's the difference between headphones and speaker?

Headphones


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
  • (2) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (3) The market for expensive headphones increased by 73% in 2012.
  • (4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (5) After two weeks ground squirrels were reanesthetized and tone pips and clicks were delivered through a TDH-49 headphone.
  • (6) I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was in my headphones, and then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper fondling my breasts," she said.
  • (7) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
  • (8) The other passengers aren't much trouble, beyond the occasional loud phone call or crackling headphones.
  • (9) They adjust wires and lights, listen intently to headphones, and a makeup woman dashes over and dabs at the shine on Brydon's forehead.
  • (10) Beats Music’s owner, headphones firm Beats Electronic, is close to being acquired by Apple for $3.2bn (£1.9bn).
  • (11) The experimental conditions consisted of three different schedules of arousal produced by series of tones presented to subjects over headphones.
  • (12) Patients in the treated group were played music of their choice through headphones from 5 min before induction of anaesthesia to 15 min postoperatively.
  • (13) Study 2 assessed the impact of a student confederate who lowered his or her observer-audible headphone volume at the polite request of a second student confederate.
  • (14) The amplified signal can be monitored through a built-in speaker, or through headphones.
  • (15) The headphone stimuli were localized by eight subjects in virtually the same positions as the corresponding free-field stimuli.
  • (16) To be able to understand radio traffic in spite of the noisy environment, headphone volume must be raised above the noise of the engines.
  • (17) Radio 1's Phil Lester and Dan Howell, who made their names on YouTube as Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil, won the inaugural Golden Headphones award, voted for by listeners.
  • (18) Apple will take over design duties for new Beats headphones, while the rest of the Beats Electronics team will be absorbed into Apple.
  • (19) Weeks later, Radio 2 breakfast DJ Chris Evans said Moyles should hang up his headphones as he was too old for his audience.
  • (20) I do struggle to switch off, but a good book and the occasional use of headphones helps.

Speaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who speaks.
  • (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
  • (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
  • (n.) A book of selections for declamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
  • (2) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (3) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
  • (4) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
  • (5) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
  • (6) The elderly groups' variability across the three muscles paralleled that of the 4-yr.-olds, suggesting that speech-motor equivalence returns to an earlier level of operation in aging speakers.
  • (7) But congressional aides said that House speaker John Boehner has not communicated his intentions for a floor vote to Sensenbrenner.
  • (8) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
  • (9) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
  • (10) The Republican House speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together.
  • (11) This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech addressed to adults.
  • (12) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
  • (13) One speaker at an international conference in Bodrum this week asked what would have happened if Turkey had been held closer by the EU?
  • (14) Other speakers included Shami Chakrabarti , director of the human rights group Liberty, and the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn who is on the Commons justice select committee.
  • (15) "I think that Joseph Kabila could go down in history ... if he were to say 'I'm a good sport and I lost,'" said opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe, a former speaker of Parliament.
  • (16) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
  • (17) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
  • (18) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
  • (19) Regardless of sex, listeners tended to underestimate the age of the speakers.
  • (20) A number of expert-speakers made recommendations on the basis of currently available information.

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