speech 音标拼音: [sp'itʃ]
n .
U 言语,说话,说话方式;
C 演说,讲话
U 言语,说话,说话方式;
C 演说,讲话
speech 语音; 话音
speech 话音 语音
speech n 1 :
the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience ; "
he listened to an address on minor Roman poets "
[
synonym : {
address }, {
speech }]
2 : (
language )
communication by word of mouth ; "
his speech was garbled "; "
he uttered harsh language "; "
he recorded the spoken language of the streets " [
synonym : {
speech }, {
speech communication }, {
spoken communication }, {
spoken language },
{
language }, {
voice communication }, {
oral communication }]
3 :
something spoken ; "
he could hear them uttering merry speeches "
4 :
the exchange of spoken words ; "
they were perfectly comfortable together without speech "
5 :
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally ; "
his manner of speaking was quite abrupt "; "
her speech was barren of southernisms "; "
I detected a slight accent in his speech " [
synonym : {
manner of speaking }, {
speech },
{
delivery }]
6 :
a lengthy rebuke ; "
a good lecture was my father '
s idea of discipline "; "
the teacher gave him a talking to " [
synonym :
{
lecture }, {
speech }, {
talking to }]
7 :
words making up the dialogue of a play ; "
the actor forgot his speech " [
synonym : {
actor '
s line }, {
speech }, {
words }]
8 :
the mental faculty or power of vocal communication ; "
language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals " [
synonym :
{
language }, {
speech }]
Speech \
Speech \,
n . [
OE .
speche ,
AS .
sp ?
c ,
spr ?,
fr .
specan ,
sprecan ,
to speak ;
akin to D .
spraak speech ,
OHG .
spr [=
a ]
hha ,
G .
sprache ,
Sw .
spr ?
k ,
Dan .
sprog .
See {
Speak }.]
1 .
The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words ;
the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds ;
the power of speaking .
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There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech ,
wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts . --
Holder .
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2 .
he act of speaking ;
that which is spoken ;
words ,
as expressing ideas ;
language ;
conversation .
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Note :
Speech is voice modulated by the throat ,
tongue ,
lips ,
etc .,
the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls .
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O goode God !
how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage . --
Chaucer .
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The acts of God . . .
to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told .
--
Milton .
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3 .
A particular language ,
as distinct from others ;
a tongue ;
a dialect .
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People of a strange speech and of an hard language .
--
Ezek .
iii .
6 .
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4 .
Talk ;
mention ;
common saying .
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The duke . . .
did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey . --
Shak .
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5 .
formal discourse in public ;
oration ;
harangue .
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The constant design of these orators ,
in all their speeches ,
was to drive some one particular point .
--
Swift .
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6 .
ny declaration of thoughts .
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I .
with leave of speech implored , . . .
replied .
--
Milton .
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Syn :
Syn .
Harangue ;
language ;
address ;
oration .
See {
Harangue },
and {
Language }.
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Speech \
Speech \,
v .
i . &
t .
To make a speech ;
to harangue . [
R .]
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229 Moby Thesaurus words for "
speech ":
ESP ,
address ,
after -
dinner speech ,
alliteration ,
allocution ,
allusion ,
anacoluthon ,
anadiplosis ,
analogy ,
anaphora ,
anastrophe ,
answer ,
answering ,
antiphrasis ,
antithesis ,
antonomasia ,
apophasis ,
aporia ,
aposiopesis ,
apostrophe ,
articulated ,
articulation ,
blast ,
bull session ,
catachresis ,
chalk talk ,
chiasmus ,
chinfest ,
choice of words ,
circumlocution ,
climax ,
commerce ,
communicating ,
communication ,
communicational ,
communion ,
communional ,
composition ,
confab ,
confabulation ,
congress ,
connection ,
contact ,
conversation ,
conversational ,
converse ,
conversion ,
correspondence ,
dealing ,
dealings ,
debate ,
declamation ,
dialect ,
dialogue ,
diatribe ,
diction ,
discourse ,
disquisition ,
duologue ,
ecphonesis ,
elocution ,
emphasis ,
enunciated ,
enunciation ,
eulogy ,
exchange ,
exclamation ,
exhortation ,
expression ,
filibuster ,
forensic ,
forensic address ,
formal speech ,
formulation ,
funeral oration ,
gemination ,
grammar ,
harangue ,
homily ,
hortatory address ,
hypallage ,
hyperbaton ,
hyperbole ,
idiom ,
inaugural ,
inaugural address ,
information ,
interacting ,
interaction ,
interactional ,
interactive ,
interchange ,
intercommunication ,
intercommunicational ,
intercommunicative ,
intercommunion ,
intercommunional ,
intercourse ,
interplay ,
interresponsive ,
interrogative ,
interrogatory ,
invective ,
inversion ,
irony ,
jargon ,
jeremiad ,
language ,
langue ,
lecture ,
line ,
lingo ,
lingua ,
lingual ,
linguistic ,
linguistic intercourse ,
litotes ,
locution ,
malapropism ,
meiosis ,
message ,
metaphor ,
metonymy ,
nuncupative ,
onomatopoeia ,
oral ,
oral communication ,
oration ,
oxymoron ,
palaver ,
paregmenon ,
parenthesis ,
parlance ,
parley ,
parol ,
parole ,
pep talk ,
periphrasis ,
peroration ,
personal usage ,
personification ,
philippic ,
phrase ,
phraseology ,
phrasing ,
pitch ,
pleonasm ,
prepared speech ,
prepared text ,
preterition ,
prolepsis ,
pronounced ,
public speech ,
question -
and -
answer session ,
questioning ,
reading ,
recital ,
recitation ,
regression ,
repetition ,
reply ,
response ,
responsive ,
rhetoric ,
said ,
sales pitch ,
sales talk ,
salutatory ,
salutatory address ,
sarcasm ,
say ,
screed ,
sermon ,
set speech ,
simile ,
similitude ,
social intercourse ,
song and dance ,
sounded ,
speaking ,
speech circuit ,
speech situation ,
speechification ,
speeching ,
spiel ,
spoken ,
spoonerism ,
syllepsis ,
symploce ,
synecdoche ,
talk ,
talkathon ,
talkfest ,
talking ,
telepathic ,
telepathy ,
tirade ,
tongue ,
touch ,
traffic ,
transmissional ,
trialogue ,
truck ,
two -
way communication ,
unwritten ,
usage ,
use of words ,
usus loquendi ,
utterance ,
uttered ,
valediction ,
valedictory ,
valedictory address ,
verbal ,
verbalization ,
verbiage ,
vernacular ,
viva voce ,
vocal ,
vocalization ,
vocalized ,
voice ,
voiced ,
voiceful ,
voicing ,
wordage ,
wording ,
words ,
zeugma
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