Definition of speak

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Speak (v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin..

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Elocution :: Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution..
Speaking :: Speaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spea.
Ultramontane :: Ultramontane () Being beyond the mountains; specifically, being beyond the Alps, in respect to the one who speaks..
Person :: Person (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject..
Mention :: Mention (n.) A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of..
Utter :: Utter (a.) To give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce.
Spoliated :: Spokesman (n.) One who speaks for another.
Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker..
Extempore :: Extempore (n.) Speaking or writing done extempore.
Forespeaking :: Forespeaking (n.) A prediction; also, a preface..
Glib :: Glib (superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech..
Talk :: Talk (n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts..
Communicable :: Communicable (a.) Communicative; free-speaking.
Shall :: Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .
Phonorganon :: Phonorganon (n.) A speaking machine.
Now :: Now (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now..
Multiloquous :: Multiloquous (a.) Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption..
Whisper :: Whisper (v. i.) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n..
Concise :: Concise (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
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