(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.
Treacle
Definition:
(n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
(n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.
(n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
(n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(2) For the pani pol filling, cook the golden syrup, palm sugar and spices until the treacle is boiling, and the sugar dissolves – approximately five minutes.
(3) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
(4) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
(5) Miss South ( northsouthfood.com ) Serves 4 1kg beef short ribs For the marinade 4cm piece of root ginger, finely grated 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey or treacle 4 tsp Marmite 1 tbsp kecap manis (Malaysian sweet soy sauce) Juice of 1 lime 1 tbsp Chinese five-spice powder 1 Make your marinade by mixing all the ingredients together in a shallow dish: it should be thick enough to stick to the meat, but not gloopy, so add more lime juice if necessary.
(6) But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus , torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up.
(7) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
(8) Traditional Sri Lankan pani pol recipes use a palm treacle base, but Kuruvita insists that golden syrup is a great substitute, and that the alarmingly large quantity still applies: "It may seem like a lot, but it's a very dense liquid."
(9) Everything in PPE is so laboriously slow, it feels like wading through treacle.
(10) Rarely seen in western dress and never in a suit, he is supposed to enjoy a traditional country breakfast of buffalo milk curd and cane sugar treacle.
(11) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
(12) The days when it goes badly are like wading through treacle, but when it goes well it's like surfing a wave.
(13) Honey treacle tart Cook - Ruby Tandoh's honey treacle tart recipe.
(14) 2 Briefly beat the treacle or honey into the buttermilk (or yoghurt) and, using a fork, gradually add this mixture into the flour mix until a soft dough is formed.
(15) Manchester youngsters who answer with a resounding "no" when asked whether their sporting heros eat chocolate, are astonished when shown a video of City defender Micah Richards' fridge, with a small treacle toffee pudding alongside fruit and vegetables, as a treat for when he has worked hard.
(16) Recipe supplied by Helen Graves, helengraves.co.uk Norfolk treacle tart This deeper, lighter version of treacle tart has a subtle hint of lemon.
(17) Nevertheless, it was a place I felt I might go to once and one of these days , to have a silver-domed trolley wheeled to the table – the dome pushed back dramatically to reveal the joint, the beef to be expertly sliced by the carver – and then to think about ordering a treacle sponge.
(18) Meanwhile, make the filling: mix the golden syrup, treacle, double cream, oatmeal and eggs together, then stir in the lemon juice.
(19) Here and there great piles of glistening, treacle-dark sludge have apparently been dredged out.
(20) I fear that our interests are about to be sacrificed.” Previous UN climate change forums, where dreary jargon often pours treacle over any sense of urgency, have been enlivened by entreaties from Pacific island leaders.