(n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
(n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equivalent 50-item CID W-22 word lists were recorded in English by three (Turkish, East Indian, and American) talkers and presented to 27 normal-hearing listeners representing each of these language groups.
(2) Finally, among the elderly hearing-impaired listeners, speech-recognition performance was correlated negatively with hearing sensitivity, but scores were correlated positively among the different talker conditions.
(3) He is what Jerry Seinfeld would have called a low talker.
(4) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
(5) There was trash talking though – motherflippers and Bad Words must fly about on court all the time ... Now and again you'd get trash talkers.
(6) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(7) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
(8) The results indicated that the esophageal talkers produced the highest intensity increase in the noise condition followed by the normal talkers and the artificial larynx talkers.
(9) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
(10) ALDS deliver speech from the lips of the talkers to the ears of the listeners.
(11) Speaking pitch level self-perception was explored in a group of 11 young adult males who served both as talkers and listeners.
(12) Electromyographic (EMG) recordings were obtained from the levator palatini, superior pharyngeal constrictor, middle pharyngeal constrictor, palatoglossus, and palatopharyngeus muscles of three talkers of American English.
(13) Four highly proficient TE talkers produced the stimuli for the study.
(14) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.
(15) The results showed that the processing of a talker's voice and the perception of voicing are asymmetrically dependent.
(16) The results suggest that the talkers used more effort in producing speech in the anesthetic condition and are untenable with the idea that intraoral air pressure constitutes an important feedback parameter in controlling articulation.
(17) Mean percentages of correct identification for the five talkers were 90% and 57% for the word-identification test and phonetic transcription, respectively.
(18) The purpose of this study was to investigate the Lombard effect on the speech of esophageal talkers, artificial larynx users, and normal speakers.
(19) Although Samar and Metz (1988) have addressed significant issues regarding the assessment of the intelligibility of hearing-impaired talkers, we cannot agree with their interpretation of their findings.
(20) Speech of deaf talkers has often been characterized as staccato, leading to the perception of improper grouping of syllables.
Tanker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
(2) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
(3) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(4) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(5) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
(6) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(7) Tankers are a common sight, carrying Libya's oil exports around the world.
(8) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
(9) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
(10) In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.
(11) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(12) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
(13) A strong relationship between disability pension due to neuropsychiatric diagnoses and work on tankers was found, especially when restricted to work as a mate on the tankers.
(14) Some variation will be caused by the time the garage last bought a tanker of petrol and set its prices: the longer ago it made the purchase, the cheaper the fuel is likely to be.
(15) Traffic congestion, dust kicked up by oil tankers and road fatalities are constant features of life here.
(16) The bomb this Wednesday morning, hidden inside a sewage tanker, hit at all of these aspects.
(17) Whoever used run-of-the-mill bulk carriers or tankers drifted to the lowest-cost country.
(18) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(19) A spokesman for Pritchard-Gordon Tankers said two men had been hit by the wave while working on deck and a third was injured trying to help them.
(20) Speculators, including banks and oil companies, fill these tankers with oil and let them drift around the oceans until the price rises.