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Speaking

noun

The utterance of intelligible speech. Synonym: speech production.

Delivering an address to a public audience. Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking.

adjective

Capable of or involving speech or speaking. "A speaking part in the play"

Speak

verb

(past spoke, archaic spake; past part. spoken, obs. or colloq. spoke; pres. part. speaking)

Express in speech. Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize. "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

Exchange thoughts; talk with. Synonym: talk. "Actions talk louder than words"

Use language. Synonym: talk. "The prisoner won't speak" , "They speak a strange dialect"

Give a speech to. Synonym: address.

Make a characteristic or natural sound.

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"Speaking" Quotes from Famous Books

... leaving were made in one day, save his own mistake of the Hebrew of Exodus xii. 12, as referring to the night of the day on which God spake to Moses, instead of the night of the day of which he was speaking, as the slightest reflection ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... of the phenomena of irritative fevers we must refer the reader to the circumstances of irritation explained in Sect. XII. and shall commence this intricate subject by speaking of the quick pulse, and proceed by considering many of the causes, which either separately or in combination most frequently produce the ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... at the next table; and called, in a foreign accent, for two glasses of beer. Then they spoke together, for some little time, about a journey from Saint Malo which they had just made; and Ralph then turned to Colonel Tempe, still speaking French with a strong ...

— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty

... to City Point, he outlined what he expected me to do; saying that I was to cut loose from the Army of the Potomac by passing its left flank to the southward along the line of the Danville railroad, and after crossing the Roanoke River, join General Sherman. While speaking, he handed me a copy of a general letter of instructions that had been drawn up for the army on the 24th. The letter contained these words concerning the ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 4 • P. H. Sheridan

... was very quiet and reserved, seldom sharing in the after-cabin amusements, never laughing, and speaking very little; but she and George Talboys had been ...

— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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