What is "speak"

Speak \Speak\, v. i. [imp. Spoke( SpakeArchaic); p. p. Spoken( Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sph[=u]rj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]

1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.

   Till at the last spake in this manner.
   --Chaucer.

   Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.
   --1 Sam. iii. 9.

2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

   That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.
   --Boyle.

   An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
   --Shak.

   During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history.
   --Macaulay.

3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

   Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.
   --Clarendon.

4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

   Lycan speaks of a part of C[ae]sar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake.
   --Addison.

5. To give sound; to sound.

   Make all our trumpets speak.
   --Shak.

6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

   Thine eye begins to speak.
   --Shak.

   To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of.
   --Robynson (More's Utopia).

   To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.

   To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.

   To speak with, to converse with. ``Would you speak with me?''
   --Shak.

   Syn: To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.

Speak \Speak\, v. t.

1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

   They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him.
   --Job. ii. 13.

2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.

3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

   It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds.
   --Shak.

   Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.
   --Tennyson.

   And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence.
   --Milton.

   Report speaks you a bonny monk.
   --Sir W. Scott.

4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.

   And French she spake full fair and fetisely.
   --Chaucer.

5. To address; to accost; to speak to.

   [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
   --Ecclus. xiii.

6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan.
   --Emerson.

   To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.

Old English specan, variant of sprecan "to speak, utter words; make a speech; hold discourse (with others)" (class V strong verb; past tense spræc, past participle sprecen), from Proto-Germanic *sprek-, *spek- (cognates: Old Saxon sprecan, Old Frisian spreka, Middle Dutch spreken, Old High German sprehhan, German sprechen "to speak," Old Norse spraki "rumor, report"), from PIE root *spreg- (1) "to speak," perhaps identical with PIE root *spreg- (2) "to strew," on notion of speech as a "scattering" of words.\n

\nThe -r- began to drop out in Late West Saxon and was gone by mid-12c., perhaps from influence of Danish spage "crackle," also used in a slang sense of "speak" (compare crack (v.) in slang senses having to do with speech, such as wisecrack, cracker, all it's cracked up to be). Elsewhere, rare variant forms without -r- are found in Middle Dutch (speken), Old High German (spehhan), dialectal German (spächten "speak").\n

\nNot the primary word for "to speak" in Old English (the "Beowulf" author prefers maþelian, from mæþel "assembly, council," from root of metan "to meet;" compare Greek agoreuo "to speak, explain," originally "speak in the assembly," from agora "assembly").

c.1300, "talk, speech," from speak (v.). Survived in Scottish English and dialect, but modern use in compounds probably is entirely traceable to Orwell (see Newspeak).

n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. vb. (context intransitive English) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

1. v. express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]

2. exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" [syn: talk]

3. use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: talk]

4. give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address]

5. make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"

6. [also: spoken, spoke]

SPEAK can refer to:

• SPEAK (test), spoken-English proficiency test
• SPEAK campaign, British animal rights campaign

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Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After accidentally busting an end-of-summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity.

''Speak '' is considered a problem novel, or trauma novel. Melinda's story is written in a diary format, consisting of a nonlinear plot and jumpy narrative that mimics the trauma she experienced. Additionally, Anderson employs intertextual symbolism in the narrative, incorporating fairy tale imagery, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and Maya Angelou, to further represent Melinda's trauma.

Since it was published, the novel has won several awards and has been translated into sixteen languages. The book has faced censorship for the mature content explicit in it. In 2004, Jessica Sharzer directed the film adaptation, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda.

Speak is a 2004 American independent drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson. It stars Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who practically stops talking after being raped by a senior student. The film is told through Melinda's eyes and is wrought with her sardonic humor and blunt honesty. It was broadcast on Showtime and Lifetime in 2005 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.

Speak is the debut studio album by American actress and singer-songwriter Lindsay Lohan. It was released in the United States on December 7, 2004 by Casablanca Records. The album was the first high-seller from Casablanca Records in several years, selling 1,000,000 units in the United States.

The album received mainly negative reviews, with critics commenting that Lohan "isn't a bad singer, but not an extraordinary singer either." In the United States the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, selling 261,762 copies in its first week. In Germany the album debuted at the #53 position and took four weeks to complete its chart run.

The first two singles from Speak, " Rumors" and " Over", were both successes, with "Over" topping the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles where it stayed for three weeks. The song also did well internationally in countries such as Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. "Rumors" peaked at #6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and also did well in Australia and Germany, where it reached #14. The music video for "Rumors" was nominated for "Best Pop Video" at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. Both songs received heavy airplay on MTV's Total Request Live. The final single, " First", was released to help promote Lohan's film, Herbie: Fully Loaded. The song earned small success in Australia and Germany. Lohan promoted the album by performing the songs in a number of live appearances. Plans for a tour in Taiwan were planned, but were later scrapped.

"Speak" is a single by the metal band Godsmack from their fourth album IV. It reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and number ten on the Modern Rock chart.

Tamás Deák (born May 31, 1976,) better known by his stage name Speak, is a rap artist, model and actor based in Hungary. He gained considerable fame after the music video for his 2003 anti-war song, "Stop the War", became popularized through video sharing websites. Speak currently lives in London, England.

Speak is a 1989 album by The Roches. The album features two singles which had accompanied videos, "Big Nuthin'" and "Everyone Is Good". Another track, "Nocturne", was featured in the 1988 film Crossing Delancey, which the trio did the soundtrack for and featured Suzzy Roche as the best friend of Amy Irving's character in the movie.

Speak is the first major studio album from the contemporary Christian music musician, Jimmy Needham. It was released on August 15, 2006 under Inpop Records in the United States.

Hamilton Loomis appeared as a guest on the album, playing guitar, bass and harmonica.

Speak (stylized SPEAK) is a synthpop band from Austin, Texas formed in 2008. The band consists of Troupe Gammage ( keyboard and lead vocals), Nick Hurt ( guitar and vocals), Joey Delahoussaye ( bass and vocals), and Jake Stewart ( drums). The band released their debut single Carrie in 2011, and their debut album I Believe In Everything in late 2011.

Speak is a 2015 novel by Louisa Hall. It is her second novel, after The Carriage House. The novel was well received. The novel was inspired by a story in the New York Times.

The Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit (SPEAK) is an oral test developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The SPEAK test continues to be administered to non-native English speakers, though it is no longer supported by ETS. No new versions of this test exist. The test aims to evaluate the examinee's proficiency in spoken English; however, most academic institutions recognize that it is limited in that capacity, and have therefore abandoned using it. It is usually taken as a professional certification, especially for graduate teaching assistants in the American college and university system, who are often required to hold office hours and converse in English with students. It is also used in the medical profession, where communication with patients is required. The SPEAK test has been routinely criticized for not accurately testing how a speaker will perform in the real world, in part because it is administered by recording the individual speaking into a recording device rather than speaking to a person. The SPEAK test has also been criticized for using native speaker norms to judge non-native speakers. In fact, independent audits of the SPEAK test conducted in 2012 on some of the few institutions found to still administer this test revealed that the assessment standards provided by ETS were not even being used by the assessors. In fact, in some cases, the assessors of the test were not trained in any way to conduct the assessments, and were found to be assigning arbitrary grades to the candidates. Some of the raters audited were found to be non-native speakers of English with limited functional spoken grammar.

The SPEAK test is no longer offered at most academic institutions. However, some institutions still recognize the SPEAK test for enrollment in certain degree programs where the proficiency of an individual's spoken English is deemed to be the priority.

The SPEAK test is very similar to the Test of Spoken English (TSE) and is in fact a form of the TSE developed for institutions by using retired forms of the TSE.

The SPEAK test is no longer supported by ETS. There are no new versions of this test being produced. In fact, there may only be a few versions of the test still in existence. Therefore, academic institutions and other agencies that would recognize this test as a valid assessment of an individual's capabilities in spoken English should be aware that this test highly susceptible to fraud. Versions of the test that may still be in use by academic institutions administering this test are compromised, and it is highly likely that people with results from this test have had the opportunity to take exactly the same test multiple times.

ETS developed the four skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) TOEFL iBT test. The Speaking section of the TOEFL is not available separately from the other sections, but institutions wishing to test speaking skills only may want to use the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) Speaking Test, also developed by ETS and available as a stand-alone assessment.

Speak is a compilation album consisting of previously obscure material by British Art rock band No-Man. Originally, recorded between 1988 and 1989, the songs were re-mixed and re-sung in 1999 (during the band's sessions for Returning Jesus). The songs had only been released on compact cassette earlier in the band's history.

Snapper Music's 2005 reissue of Speak adds the bonus track "The Hidden Art of Man Ray" (an untreated improvisation from 1988). The track also appears as a second disc on the limited edition of Tonefloat's vinyl release of Speak.

" Pink Moon" is a Nick Drake cover from his album of the same name.

speak was a Unix utility that used a predefined set of rules to turn a file of English text into phoneme data compatible with a Federal Screw Works (later Votrax) model VS4 "Votrax" Speech Synthesizer. It was first included in Unix v3 and possibly later ones, with the OS-end support files and help files persisting until v6. As of late 2011, the original source code for speak, and portions of speak.m (which is generated from speak.v) were discovered. At least three versions of the man page are known to still exist.

The main program (speak) was around 4500 bytes, the rule tables (/etc/speak.m) were around 11000 bytes, and the table viewer (speakm) was around 1900 bytes.