What's the difference between orator and speaker?

Orator


Definition:

  • (n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
  • (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
  • (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
  • (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
  • (2) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
  • (3) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
  • (4) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
  • (5) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
  • (6) There is a kind of assassination, a funeral oration and someone with blood on his hands.
  • (7) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
  • (8) The 1976 Cushing orator takes a critical look at federal medical programs today, and at the health desires and needs of the public.
  • (9) The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands.
  • (10) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
  • (11) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
  • (12) Le Pen makes headlines and is a good orator – smooth and tough at the same time.
  • (13) The 1977 Cushing Orator looks at the question of neurosurgical manpower and its relation to national health policies, proposed or abandoned.
  • (14) These results suggest that by forming heterodimers, more elab-orate control of transcription can be achieved by creating receptor combinations with differing activities.
  • (15) Scholes, meanwhile, has spent most of the past two decades captivating football fans with incisive passing, but rarely with his public utterances, which have almost always seemed to bore the orator as much as his listeners.
  • (16) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
  • (17) When Rubio’s campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
  • (18) Among them were her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two of the most skilled orators American politics has ever known and, as the men Clinton seeks to succeed, predecessors with whom her own rhetorical gifts are often compared.
  • (19) A gifted orator, he uses hyperbole and alarmism to great effect, pandering to popular prejudices.
  • (20) King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration.

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.