(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.
Valedictory
Definition:
(a.) Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.
(n.) A valedictory oration or address spoken at commencement in American colleges or seminaries by one of the graduating class, usually by the leading scholar.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Liverpool it has been a harrowing, valedictory year, the kind that deserves a send-off, and they had one here even in defeat.
(2) Italy crashed out, though Fabio Quagliarella’s valedictory lob from distance deep into injury time ensured they at least departed South Africa with a flourish.
(3) "In every business the chief executive wakes up in the morning wondering where the growth will come from," he reflected in valedictory remarks.
(4) The 87-year-old congressman, who has represented a Michigan district as a Democrat in the House of Representatives for almost six decades, has been on a valedictory tour since announcing, back in February, that he is retiring at the end of the year.
(5) In a valedictory email to stakeholders last week Karen Boswell, the outgoing managing director, trumpeted a record that saw the company garner awards and plaudits.
(6) But more than 7,000 Democrats didn’t just turn up for a valedictory fry and senatorial rally.
(7) Kreis has repeatedly insisted a decision has not been made, and his club owner Dell Loy Hansen is still publicly holding out hope that a revised, lucrative offer can keep the coach, but there was a valedictory feel to Kreis's comments at the Thursday evening press conference, when he acknowledged that ever since the final game of the season against Chivas, he's had to deal with the sensation of knowing that each game "might be the last match that I get to coach with this group," even as he insisted that "the decision has yet to be made."
(8) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
(9) Before his retirement, Roth's mood became valedictory ( Exit Ghost , 2007) but still defiant ( Indignation , 2008).
(10) In his parliamentary valedictory speech, Hockey called for an end to “the revolving door in Australian politics” and said the Abbott government “was good at policy but struggled with politics”.
(11) Having offered his successor some beneficial advice, he gave a valedictory wave - "I wish you and the club all the best for the future" - before signing off with a defiant flourish.
(12) Byrne's brief epistle was redolent of a similar valedictory message left by Reginald Maudling to James Callaghan after Labour won a narrow victory in the 1964 general election.
(13) Coming of Age, was something of a valedictory address, not only by its dramatis personae but by Terkel himself.
(14) Several are retiring at this coming poll, and we heard their contributions in the valedictories this week.
(15) On Tuesday the BBC will broadcast his "last interview", a valedictory two-part conversation with Alan Yentob, shot at his Manhattan home in a film for Imagine , directed by Sarah Aspinall.
(16) Sir Iain Lobban, the outgoing director of Britain’s eavesdropping agency GCHQ, has used his valedictory address to deliver a full-throated defence of its activities in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations.
(17) Of course, he has given himself a hell of a send-off in this valedictory painting.
(18) Merkel and Obama developed a close working relationship and the German government sees his choice of Berlin as his final European stop on his valedictory tour as a testament to that personal bond and to Germany’s status as a bastion of relative stability on a turbulent continent.
(19) BBC director general Mark Thompson's valedictory appearance before MPs on Tuesday touched on many of the controversies of his eight years in charge – executive pay, the lack of older women on screen and the rights and wrongs of BBC1's The Voice.
(20) In days gone by, British ambassadors would wait until they were leaving before firing off a valedictory despatch that revealed what they really thought about their foreign hosts.