Crossword clues for speaker
speaker
- Presiding officer in the House of Commons
- Tweeter, perhaps one sitting in Parliament
- House party?
- Home theater component
- IPod accessory
- Position in the House
- House head
- Valedictory deliverer, e.g
- House sitter?
- Tom Foley, e.g
- Important House title
- House leader
- Gingrich, once
- A private’s keen to reform one who’s not had to learn the language
- Asparagus unit
- Someone who expresses in language
- The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly
- Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
- Someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
- Electrical device that may blow
- Tris or Tip
- Tip O'Neill was one
- House chair
- Tom Foley, e.g.
- Podium occupant
- Vassal almost stealing crown, as chair of assembly
- Orator; sound source
- One calls to order audio equipment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speaker \Speak"er\, n.
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One who speaks. Specifically:
One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "one who speaks," agent noun from speak (v.). Similar formation in Old Frisian spreker, Old High German sprahhari, German Sprecher. First applied to "person who presides over an assembly" c.1400, from similar use in Anglo-French (late 14c.) in reference to the English Parliament; later extended to the U.S. House of Representatives, etc. The electric amplifier so called from 1926, short for loud-speaker.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who speaks. 2 loudspeaker. 3 (context politics English) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives. 4 One who makes a speech to an audience. 5 (context US English) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches. 6 (context linguistics English) The producer of a given utterance, whether actually spoken or not.
WordNet
n. someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system]
the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
Wikipedia
Speaker may refer to:
- Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
- Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
- HMS Speaker (D90), a WWII Royal Navy aircraft carrier
- Speaker, in linguistics, a grammatical person, first person as opposed to the addressee and bystanders
- The Speaker, a BBC television series
- Los Speakers (or "The Speakers"), a Colombian rock band from the 1960s
- Tris Speaker an American baseball player
The Speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer (chair). The title was first used in 1377 in England.
Usage examples of "speaker".
It was obvious by the clattering noises over the speaker that Abies was done with them again.
Rose Fuller moved that the address should be recommitted, but no arguments which he, or any speaker that took part with him adduced, could alter the disposition of the house upon the subject, and his motion was negatived by a large majority.
One of the speakers was relating how a very famous advertising mogul insisted that every radio creative meeting be attended by artists as well as copywriters.
In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.
An automatic rheostat must have been mounted to the speaker, for the volume rose steadily, until the noise of the storm wind filled the office, a blast of rushing airlike the sounds of an experimental wind tunnel at maximum velocity.
Baynes, and turned to Ban Sar Din to ask if the ashram offered yoga programs, breathing, discussion groups, chanting, and had guest speakers.
Since it would promote free enterprise, I hoped to get strong bipartisan support and was encouraged by the fact that Speaker Hastert seemed especially interested in the effort.
Space, off Carnaby Street, that was done out like a spaceship, the doors to the sound booths were like airlocks and all the speakers were housed in swoopy blobby cabinets that looked like they were in the middle of a flashback, and there was this other very weird studio called ADR round the back of Kings Cross where there was a stream running half-way up the walls, all the seating was made out of the boots of cars, Minis converted into couches, and you got upstairs to the recording suites through a door opening out of a large tree in the corner of the reception.
They hung Playboy Playmates on the wall, set up his hi-fi, with the tweed speaker covers, and his aquarium with the grow light and the bubbler, which imparted a chill, dank smell to the basement air.
Previous to the time of Socrates, orators in addressing popular assemblies, lawyers in pleading cases, and all public speakers, appear to have made use of the cithara as a sort of accompaniment, if for no other purpose than to assure themselves of securing a proper pitch of the voice.
Patrons occupied all the booths and most of the tables, the combo was setting up in a corner, and several couples on the minuscule dance floor were shaking their assets to a blaring rock tune from hidden speakers that had Magnus gritting his teeth.
This was changed in 1890, by a ruling made by Speaker Reed, and later embodied in Rule XV of the House, that members present in the chamber but not voting would be counted in determining the presence of a quorum.
Gendibal gambled on complete certainty, driving in with a didacticism that would not allow the First Speaker to recover.
The control officer told Gervase to get the speaker to full volume, and went out on to the balcony with Dobbie, propping the light trap doors open behind them.
We are now asking you to take his place at the Council of the Elderhood, meeting in Cluster One, to be speakers for your species.