What's the difference between hustings and speech?
Hustings
Definition:
(n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
(n. pl.) Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
(n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the hustings last night was the first time I heard in British politics – and in Witney too – the Conservative candidate booed, when he was talking about the NHS,” he said.
(2) Asked after the factory visit why Hutchings had not been at the hustings, David Cameron said: "She was with me at a very important meeting at a business that's the sort of beating heart of Eastleigh.
(3) Hustings will take place in June and July, and voting will not begin until August.
(4) It is hardly suited to the hurly-burly of the hustings.
(5) At hustings, Watson insisted he did not mind who won the top job, though his credentials as a Brownite with strong trade union connections suggested he would have struggled under the Blairite Liz Kendall.
(6) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(7) Helmer, who has represented the East Midlands in the European parliament for 15 years, was "overwhelmingly" endorsed by the Newark constituency association at a hustings meeting on Monday before being backed by Ukip's national executive committee, said a party spokesman.
(8) Labour's John O'Farrell said it did not matter that she was not at the hustings – as she was represented there by her government's coalition partner.
(9) When Davidson was born, in November 1978, homosexuality was yet to be decriminalised in Scotland, a point she made last Thursday at the Scottish parliament LGBTI hustings at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.
(10) On the issue of the missed hustings he said: "She wanted to be with me here at this important business that employs hundreds of people, this is a complete red herring."
(11) The two candidates will hold their first hustings on Wednesday evening, and further meetings have been promised before the result of the postal ballot is announced on 23 October.
(12) We’re sitting in Berger’s constituency office in Wavertree, Liverpool but, a few weeks before I’d gone to watch her at the mayoral hustings.
(13) Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Eleanor Laing says she will stand up for backbenchers against overpowering governments of any political stripe #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon Burns says he standing for deputy speaker because he is fully qualified and would be "firm with a light touch" #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon Burns says it is an elephant in the room that he and the speaker are "not the greatest of personal friends" #hustings #dwarfgate October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon burns says not behind twitter account in his name +wouldn't know how to "tweet I think it is called".
(14) The claim came after it emerged that the Labour party had agreed for Corbyn and Smith to meet at their first hustings at an event organised for Monday evening by Channel 4 News .
(15) The Labour party website lists upcoming hustings as being in Cardiff on Thursday; Nottinghamshire on Wednesday at an event hosted by the BBC; Birmingham on 18 August; Glasgow on 25 August; and an event organised by the Guardian on 1 September in London.
(16) So far, the culture of the debate has been Scottish Enlightenment-lite: ramped-up editorial in the papers and among broadcasters, rashes of serious hustings in community halls, academics moving their heavy artillery into place.
(17) Last month, the justices effectively ordered Husted to drop his decree and keep the polls open.
(18) There is still much more work needed to make ourselves more like the nation we seek to represent, but this is a really positive time for our party after increasing our number of MPs by 50%.” The party hopes to appoint a deputy leader after a hustings on 27 June, presided over by the Lords chief whip, Ben Stoneham.
(19) Hamilton described the leaking of the letter as a dirty trick to deliberately destabilise the hustings, saying some of the queries it contained had already been answered.
(20) Speaking in an ITV hustings, Reckless suggested that some European migrants, such as a Polish plumber, should only be allowed to stay for a fixed period on a work visa if the UK left the EU as advocated by his party.
Speech
Definition:
(n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
(n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
(n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
(n.) Talk; mention; common saying.
(n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
(n.) ny declaration of thoughts.
(v. i. & t.) To make a speech; to harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(3) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(4) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(5) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
(6) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(7) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(8) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(9) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(10) At the People’s Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he’s worried for the future of the NHS.
(11) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(12) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(13) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(14) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(15) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
(16) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(17) It would seem that Cameron's repeated high-profile speeches on immigration may have more to do with meeting the political challenge of Ukip than grappling with any alleged problem of benefit or health "tourism".
(18) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
(19) They’re staying home,” Cruz declared in his speech.
(20) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.