(v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
(v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
(v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
(v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
(v. i.) To give sound; to sound.
(v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
(v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
(v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
(v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
(v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
(v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Stutter
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
(n.) The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
(n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggested that the parent variables that were significantly related to the child's primary stuttering were not the same as those significantly related to her secondary stuttering.
(2) This may be interpreted as support for Kent's (1983) hypothesis that stutterers may be poorer at temporal processing.
(3) The two experiments have replicated and extended, under different conditions, the earlier findings of a letter sequence transcription deficit in stutterers, but the nature of the interference still remains to be clarified.
(4) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(5) In a control condition, eight stutterers read one of two matched passages aloud five times in succession.
(6) The consistency with which stuttering tends to occur on the same words in successive readings of a passage, though high enough to warrant the assumption that stuttering is a response to stimuli, is generally far from perfect.
(7) To contribute to the Geschwind-Galaburda theory of cerebral lateralization, we examined the relationship of left-handedness to allergic disorders and stuttering, using epidemiological data of two French samples, one of which (N = 9591) is representative of the French male population between 17 and 24 years of age.
(8) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(9) Stuttering affects 1% of the adult population, though 5% of children about the age of five develop the condition, with most growing out of it after childhood.
(10) Results support the conclusion that stuttering, seen on the symptomatic level of disfluencies produced, is a prosodic disturbance.
(11) These bipolar scales were derived from words previously judged by speech clinicians as descriptive of stutterers and antonyms of those words.
(12) In all it began with word amnesia or stuttering, and in one to five years impairment of auditory comprehension, and reading and writing difficulties with kanji (Japanese morphograms) appeared.
(13) This paper reviews the various approaches that have been made toward the investigation of speech quality in stuttering treatment.
(14) The results demonstrated predictable trends in speech naturalness during the program, but they also showed that natural sounding speech is not a predictable outcome of a procedure that removes stuttering, controls speaking rate, and exposes clients to transfer procedures.
(15) Finally, no difference was found in the posttreatment naturalness ratings of stutterers rated as mild, moderate, and severe before treatment.
(16) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(17) The original headline and first sentence suggested that the GM mice stuttered.
(18) In the present study, surface electrodes were used to describe the perioral reflexes in 7 stutterers and 5 nonstutterers.
(19) On two-dimensional gels, the faulty proteins were shown as a trail of spots with molecular weights similar to those of the authentic proteins but separated in the isoelectric focusing dimension, a phenomenon we call "stuttering."
(20) The home support took out their anger on the referee Mike Dean and it intensified when Maloney, following that straight-on, stuttering run, bent the ball brilliantly beyond Wojciech Szczesny.