(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.
Stentorian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
(2) No doubt she would have been suitably scathing of the few less stentorian, more appeasing notes.
(3) Russell Crowe looks on stentorian form as the pre-flood patriarch, reeling from portents of the apocalypse and determined to protect his wife (Jennifer Connelly), his adopted daughter (Emma Watson) and the animals of the world.
(4) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(5) That stentorian gravitas has served Cheney well, but I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of his personality.
(6) Stentorian snoring and diurnal somnolence are the cardinal manifestations and should always lead to an examination during sleep.
(7) From Sinn Féin’s point of view, the stentorian attitude of Foster, refusing to stand aside, and the growing feeling among their own supporters that they have been weak and pushed around, has made it necessary for them to take a tough line.
(8) A stentorian American voice would utter the legend: “This election meets the highest standards of Scottish democratic excellence.” But the big Benjamins would assuredly accrue from the dodgier democracies such as Russia and China.
(9) Ludus played a fretful and subsequently jazz-inflected post-punk, their singer's playfully stentorian vocals (which Morrissey admired, and in part mimicked a few years later) describing vignettes charged with the sexual politics of the time and occasionally veering into ecstatic screeches.
(10) The best part was hitchhiking up to London for a night out (her brilliantly posh and stentorian voice meant that her lifts tended to keep their hands to themselves, fearing serious consequences if they didn't).
(11) We like the way the riff decelerates to a sludgy pace, and the booming, stentorian singing, which is of the Peter Murphy-announcing-that-Bela-Lugosi-is-dead school of portentous vocalese.
(12) Tuck got progressively drunker as the night went on, and Roberts dealt with it in a kind of disapproving stentorian way.