What's the difference between speaker and speakership?
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.
Speakership
Definition:
(n.) The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) I accept that in the end it is the Liberal party room that determines our candidate for the speakership, but my strong support and nomination will be for Bronwyn,” he said.
(2) "In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington."
(3) Here I am saying why (standing orders) should be suspended so that we have the proper debate and we have a vote in your Speakership and whether you have the confidence of the house – and you interject from the chair in order to slap that down.
(4) Brian Beutler in Salon sketches what happens next : The logical leap (really, the assumption) everyone’s making is that Boehner will put the Senate plan on the floor before midnight, rather than kowtow to the dead-enders to preserve his speakership.
(5) Labor has a valid point about Bishop and the speakership.
(6) Abbott told the Nine Network on Sunday it was “a pity” to lose Bishop from the speakership over an expenses scandal but it had triggered a review he hoped would restore public confidence that MPs were working in the public interest.
(7) Ciobo said the Coalition had several parliamentary veterans who were strong candidates to take on the Speakership and could rule fairly over parliament.
(8) I’m going to try to avoid so-called captain’s picks here, in the end, this is a matter for the Liberal party room to choose a nominee for the speakership,” he said.
(9) The Bakersfield father-of-two built could potentially bid for the speakership after the November election.
(10) Doing so would seem likely to enrage the hard right and could endanger Boehner's speakership.
(11) On taking the speakership, he made a public plea for him to be allowed continued time with his family.
(12) I am sad for his family.” Boothroyd, who sat in the Commons as a Labour MP before her election to the speakership, said Sewel’s conduct had damaged the upper house.
(13) Ciobo said the Coalition had several parliamentary veterans who were strong candidates to take on the speakership and could rule fairly over parliament.
(14) Asked by CBS whether the shutdown would now happen, he said: “No.” Boehner’s decision to walk away from the speakership was the culmination of an intensifying clash between Republican leaders in Congress and the burgeoning cabal of right-wing conservatives whose ranks have grown since the midterm elections of 2010 and 2014.
(15) That would not necessarily stop the legislation from passing but it could endanger his speakership.
(16) The leader of the house, Christopher Pyne, tweeted: “Awful on the day we remember the anniversary of the destruction of MH17 that Labor wants to play politics over the speakership.” The AFP pursued a previous speaker , Peter Slipper, over his use of taxi vouchers to visit wineries outside Canberra in 2010.
(17) He assured the American people that during his final 30 days in the speakership – the top post in the House – he would use his remaining muscle to make sure a funding bill went through to avert a second shutdown of the federal government in as many years.
(18) I think it cost him, the fact that he was loyal to Bronwyn Bishop, beyond when it was sensible, in terms of her speakership and others,” “But I have respect for him as person even though I have very strong ideological differences with him and political differences with him.
(19) The race for the Speakership took a dramatic twist earlier on when Tory veteran Ann Widdecombe was knocked out in the second ballot and three other candidates withdrew from the running, leaving Bercow and Young to fight it out in the third round.
(20) Richard Shepherd Shepherd threw his hat into the ring for the Speakership after saying he would back a motion of no confidence in Martin.