Speech

What do we mean by speech?

The faculty or act of speaking. noun

The faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words. noun

What is spoken or expressed, as in conversation; uttered or written words. noun

A talk or public address, or a written copy of this. noun

The language or dialect of a nation or region. noun

One's manner or style of speaking. noun

The study of oral communication, speech sounds, and vocal physiology. noun

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words, as in human beings and, by imitation, in some birds; capacity for expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking, or of uttering words either in the speaking-or the singing-voice. noun

The action or exercise of speaking; expression of thoughts or ideas with the speaking-voice; oral utterance or communication; also, an act or exercise of oral expression or communication; talk; conversation; discourse: as, a person's habit of speech; to be chary of speech; their speech was all about themselves. noun

The words and grammatical forms in which thought is expressed; language; a language. noun

That which is spoken; thoughts as uttered or written; a saying or remark; especially, a more or less formal address or other utterance; an oration; a harangue: as, a cutting speech in conversation; the speeches in a dialogue or a drama; to deliver a speech; a volume of speeches. noun

A speaking or talking of something; uttered opinion, intention, etc.; oral or verbal mention; report. noun

An occasion of speaking; course of speaking; oral communication; colloquy; conference; parlance: as, to get speech of or with a person. noun

Manner of speaking; form or quality of that which is spoken or of spoken sounds; method of utterance, either habitual or occasional: as, his speech betrays his nationality; rapid speech; thick or harsh speech. noun

The utterance or sounding of a musical instrument, especially of a pipe in a pipe-organ. noun

In a wheel, the hub with the spokes, but without the fellies and tire. noun

Synonyms Speech, Address, Harangue, Oration. Speech is generic, and applies to any form of words uttered; it is the thing spoken, without reference to its quality or the manner of speaking it. An address is a speech viewed as spoken to one or more persons, and is generally of the better sort: as, Paul's speech on Mars' Hill; his address before Felix. A harangue is a noisy speech, usually unstudied and unpolished, addressed to a large audience and in a violent manner. An oration is a formal, impressive, studied, and elaborately polished address: as, Webster was selected to deliver the oration when the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill monument was laid, and again when the monument was completed. See sermon and language. noun

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.

A session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

A style of speaking.

(grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech

A dialect or language.

Talk; mention; rumour.

A class kids go to, considered a form of therapy, in which they learn how to speak better. Urban Dictionary

An exclamation of agreement or respect for a statment or comment that a person has just made. Urban Dictionary

When you do a speech but it isn’t necessarily on the topic but it is a ducking good speech Urban Dictionary

To be full of speech. Urban Dictionary

The speech you give when trying to civilly dump someone. It starts out saying a bunch of nice things about the dumpee, then has a negative turning point when the dumper says "but..." Most commonly used in season finales of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette as well as other dating reality TV shows. Urban Dictionary

Term used by George Bush when describing the action of addressing the public. Urban Dictionary

Describing a middle aged white guy who lives in Wisconsin who names his dog after his favorite football team. He gets on various chat rooms, blows them up with funny/ hysterical jabs with friends. He tends to play games for fun, kicks ass, takes names, makes videos and posts pictures of his pets all day. He says Fuck a lot of your into that kind of thing. Urban Dictionary

A word that doesn't exist even though google thinks it is. Urban Dictionary

South African, Durban, Indian slang terminology To argue or fight Urban Dictionary

Another word for humping an office chair Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to speech:
speech, speach, sleech, spech, smeech, speece, spetch, peech, skeech.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word speech:
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Words that rhyme with speech:
breach, reach, teach, beach, impeach, breech, beseech, outreach, leach, each, peach, leech, preach, bleach, beech, screech, overreach, queach, keech, dreich, meech, pleach, microfiche, creech, keach, material breach, edward teach, cheech, veatch, out of reach, seabeach, piech, meach, creach, leitch, veach, black beech, long beach, pietsch, red beech, copper beech, american beech, purple beech, anticipatory breach, native peach, negro peach, european beech, white beech, hard beech, silver beech, roble beech, constructive breach, medicinal leech, myrtle beech, partial breach, weech, weeping beech, liquid bleach, common beech, japanese beech, native beech, dietsch, evergreen beech, new-zealand beech, wild peach, indian beech, leetch, southern beech, broadbeach, dietsche, inspeech, keetch, long-beach, reeche, swiech, veech, wiech.

Adjectives that are often used to describe speech:
free, long, human, last, short, common, public, ordinary, everyday, famous, direct, spontaneous, normal, inner, english, slurred, eloquent, articulate, brief, final, colloquial, popular, indirect, commercial, formal, inaugural, fluent, impassioned, prepared, plain, reported, minute, conversational, oral, connected, keynote, native, rapid, slow, opening, continuous, powerful, adult, excellent, daily, egocentric, able, remarkable, persuasive, lengthy, correct, intelligible, secret, brilliant, synthetic, presidential, casual, celebrated, informal, introductory, fiery, memorable, defective.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective speech:
language, perception, therapy, recognition, hearing, defects, development, act, production, acts, theory, training, synthesis, making, errors, discrimination, correction, communication, intelligibility, audiometry, analysis, rate, pathology, difficulties, reading, coding, systems, sounds, processing, style, output, understanding, technology, disorders, input, therapist, results, enhancement, defect, comprehension, disturbance, scores, reception, rehabilitation, quality, sound, impairment, evaluation, pathologist, threshold, performance, melody, disorder, behavior, tests, control, arrest, criticism, improvement, rhythm, software, variation, breathing, assessment, characteristics, delay, play, testing, articulation, pattern, physiology, report, timing, text, difficulty, thresholds, fluency, noise, print, ability, recoding, prosody, techniques, grille, segmentation, accommodation.

Words that sound like speech:
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