Crossword clues for speaking
speaking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To give sound; to sound.
Make all our trumpets speak.
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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.
Speaking \Speak"ing\, n.
The act of uttering words.
Public declamation; oratory.
Speaking \Speak"ing\, a.
Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
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Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects.
Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance.
Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance.
To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted.
Wiktionary
1 Used in speaking. 2 Expressive; eloquent. 3 Involving speaking. 4 Having the ability of speech. 5 # (context in compounds English) Having competence in a language. n. 1 One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language. 2 The act of communicating vocally. 3 An oral recitation of e.g. a story. v
(present participle of speak English)
WordNet
adj. capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play" [syn: speaking(a)] [ant: nonspeaking]
capable of speech; "the speaking animal" [syn: speaking(a), speech-endowed]
n. the utterance of intelligible speech [syn: speech production]
delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" [syn: public speaking, speechmaking, oral presentation]
Wikipedia
In sociolinguistics, SPEAKING or the SPEAKING model, is a model socio-linguistic study (represented as a mnemonic) developed by Dell Hymes. It is a tool to assist the identification and labeling of components of interactional linguistics that was driven by his view that, in order to speak a language correctly, one needs not only to learn its vocabulary and grammar, but also the context in which words are used.
To facilitate the application of his representation, Hymes constructed the acronym, S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G (for setting and scene, participants, ends, acts sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms, & genre) under which he grouped the sixteen components within eight divisions.
The model had sixteen components that can be applied to many sorts of discourse: message form; message content; setting; scene; speaker/sender; addressor; hearer/receiver/audience; addressee; purposes (outcomes); purposes (goals); key; channels; forms of speech; norms of interaction; norms of interpretation; and genres.
Usage examples of "speaking".
That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.
Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.
This was speaking like a man of business, and the arguments adduced were unanswerable.
Adikor, speaking directly to the adjudicator, before the orbiting Bolbay blocked his line of sight again.
During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.
I had only to walk in, there was no house in Agios Georgios where I would not be welcome, so young and pretty, and speaking such good Greek .
Everyone stopped speaking to stare agog at the man who had uttered this bizarre snippet.
There Amir waited with the Aman and four Arabic speaking men, selected from the crew to witness the wedding.
As the Saint prostrated himself alongside Amity, he could hear the voice of a man, apparently speaking to the dog.
I can bring mysell to ask a favour of ane that winna sae muckle as ware a word on me, to tell me if he hears me speaking till him.
Generally speaking, it would be more advisable to become a chatterer and keep an anecdotal note-book.
In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, there is no mention of any anointment prior to his entry into Jerusalem, so, according to them, it would appear that he was not, technically speaking, the messiah at that point.
We moved then to the question of how her aphonia, which I had wrongly thought at first to be connected to her anxiety about speaking a foreign language3 while temporarily removed from the company of the man she loved.
Rhetoric was a way of speaking, arguing, persuading, that was necessary in a democracy where the assemblies were large, where there were no microphones, and where it was necessary to sway others in debate.
While the clergyman was speaking, with flashing eyes and commanding voice, the seaman turned ashy pale, and drew his shoulders together like a cat preparing to defend her life.