the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
<noun.communication> he listened to an address on minor Roman poets
(language) communication by word of mouth
<noun.communication> his speech was garbled he uttered harsh language he recorded the spoken language of the streets
something spoken
<noun.communication> he could hear them uttering merry speeches
the exchange of spoken words
<noun.communication> they were perfectly comfortable together without speech
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
<noun.communication> his manner of speaking was quite abrupt her speech was barren of southernisms I detected a slight accent in his speech
a lengthy rebuke
<noun.communication> a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline the teacher gave him a talking to
words making up the dialogue of a play
<noun.communication> the actor forgot his speech
the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
<noun.cognition> language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals
Speech \Speech\, v. i. & t. To make a speech; to harangue. [R.]
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.
There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. --Holder.
2. he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
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.
O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage. --Chaucer.
The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told. --Milton.
3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
People of a strange speech and of an hard language. --Ezek. iii. 6.
4. Talk; mention; common saying.
The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. --Shak.
5. formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. --Swift.
6. ny declaration of thoughts.
I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied. --Milton.
Syn: Syn. Harangue; language; address; oration. See {Harangue}, and {Language}.
"We must compel them (automakers) to retain all current workers unless their ability to survive is severely at risk as a result of conditions beyond their control," Bieber said in a speech to the convention.
"What portion of the 12 percent are drivers is not yet known," said Richard Sykes, professor of speech communication at the University of Minnesota and director of the survey.
Mr. Bush said yesterday he will talk about health care next Tuesday, but details aren't expected until a Feb. 6 speech, officials said.
Mrs. Thatcher declared in her own speech that German unification should not weaken security and said U.S. and British troops and NATO nuclear missiles must remain in a united Germany.
The speech, delivered three days before the 19th anniversary of the coup that brought him to power, was addressed to a convention of revolutionary committee members.
"I love rock and roll," Mrs. Gore told reporters after her speech. "I grew up on it." A seven-officer Marine Corps jury Friday acquitted Marine Cpl.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
"Suppose a child has a hearing loss and a speech delay," says Peggy Balla, a public health nurse who became CHIP's director. "Is that a medical problem or an educational problem or both?
Calling the United States a "nation at risk," Oliver North criticized the news media and Congress and praised President Reagan in a speech before a friendly audience of about 200 people.
I want it back.' I suppose some Moslems, reading those words uttered by Mr Salman Rushdie, the novelist, last week in his speech on the third anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa condemning him to death, will have felt a grim satisfaction.
U.S. officials in Washington said he might give a speech there.
People gathered around the televisions in an electronics shop at a shopping mall to watch Wright's hourlong nationally broadcast speech.
"There are even candidate members of the Politburo who learned that troops had entered Afghanistan only after reading the newspapers," editor Grigory Baklanov said in a speech last year.
Mr Heseltine had been drafted in to answer Mr Smith because Mr Norman Lamont, the chancellor, was giving evidence to the Treasury committee. Mr Smith used his opening speech to review the government's pledges of an early economic upturn.
In a campaign speech, Lok Dal's leader Devi Lal boasted that Haryana "will be the beginning of the end for Rajiv Gandhi."
For Dukakis, the speech marked the culmination of a 16-month campaign for his party's presidential nomination and the formal opening of his challenge to Bush.
That way, the children might be given hearing aids before they begin having troubles learning speech and language.
It's going to be a factor in the market over the next decade," Seidman told reporters after his speech.
The vice president gave a speech in Kennebunkport's town square after the local Memorial Day parade.
"Big changes are under way in Eastern Europe," Gorbachev said in his keynote speech to the 28th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in the Kremlin.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in a major policy speech today, intensified pressure on the United States to agree to superpower talks on short-range nuclear weapons.
"Each day of delay costs money," said A. Robert Abboud, a Chicago investor, in a speech to the French-American Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
In his speech, Kinnear said that the petrochemical industry could profit if it remains lean.
The government has rejected all the students' demands, including greater freedom of speech and press, more money for education, disclosure of the incomes of top officials and reassessment of Hu's historical role.
"We agreed that when we watched the speech, we would drink a toast to Gorbachev's health." The disapproval of the Russian government goes deeper than nostalgia and sentimentality.
Mandela, accompanied by his wife, Winnie, inspected a military honor guard, but did not give a speech.
In his speech broadcast on Panamanian radio and television, Endara said he would continue to work in coming days, despite his fast.
Some of the recent problems besetting the Bush campaign: _He unintentionally handed Jesse Jackson a new issue with his characterization of the Democrat as "the hustler from Chicago" in a speech to a GOP audience in Nebraska.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Darman and Gingrich had smoothed over their differences in a telephone conversation today, and that Darman was not withdrawing the speech.