What's the difference between misspeak and pronounce?

Misspeak


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To err in speaking.
  • (v. t.) To utter wrongly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jeb Bush didn’t misspeak – he told the rest of America what Florida women have known for years, which is that he doesn’t believe women’s health is worth much,” said Devon Kearns, a spokeswoman for the group.
  • (2) We’ve had several ministers misspeaking about metadata.
  • (3) Even if you think the Twitter storms about political “misspeaks” and “gaffes” are fatuous, consider what you did not hear after the PM’s outburst last week.
  • (4) But for Jewish people to be so quick to be thin-skinned is not good either, and is in danger of seeming coercive.Baddiel’s throwaway parenthesis on Israel’s being “deemed the nutcase pariah-state du jour”, is frankly disreputable, and gives the impression that he is “playing the antisemitism card” with more in mind than the banal misspeakings of a few footballers.
  • (5) Sugar, 62, is not a man for weighing his words carefully, fearful of the repercussions of "misspeaking".
  • (6) Memories are false, people misspeak, they are misunderstood, mistakes are repeated until they are unmoored from the original and turn into concrete evidence for conspiracy nuts.
  • (7) Spokesperson Katrina Pierson told CNN his initial comments were a “simple misspeak” and said Trump did not support penalising women for having abortions, even if they were illegal.
  • (8) Mistakes however – when we slip up or misspeak – often reveal what is going on unconsciously.

Pronounce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
  • (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
  • (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
  • (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
  • (v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
  • (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
  • (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (2) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (4) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
  • (5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
  • (6) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
  • (7) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
  • (8) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
  • (9) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
  • (10) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
  • (11) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
  • (12) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
  • (13) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
  • (14) There were pronounced interspecies differences in binding affinity and binding capacity which were the highest in guinea pig and human species, respectively.
  • (15) When propofol and fentanyl were used together, the cardiovascular effects were more pronounced than when they were used alone.
  • (16) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
  • (17) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
  • (18) The sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye exhibits a pronounced circadian rhythm.
  • (19) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
  • (20) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.

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