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SPEAK
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
(verb) express in speech; “She talks a lot of nonsense”; “This depressed patient does not verbalize”
talk, speak
(verb) exchange thoughts; talk with; “We often talk business”; “Actions talk louder than words”
speak, talk
(verb) use language; “the baby talks already”; “the prisoner won’t speak”; “they speak a strange dialect”
address, speak
(verb) give a speech to; “The chairman addressed the board of trustees”
speak
(verb) make a characteristic or natural sound; “The drums spoke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past (archaic) spake or spoke, past participle (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke or spoken)
(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
(intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
(intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
(transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
(by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
(transitive) To utter.
(transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
(intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
(transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6
Usage notes
• Saying that one speaks a language often means that one can or knows how to speak it ("I speak Italian"); similarly, "I don't speak Italian" usually means that one cannot, rather than that one chooses not to.
Synonyms
• articulate, talk, verbalize
Antonyms
• be silent
Noun
speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks)
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Speech, conversation.
Noun
speak (plural speaks)
(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
Anagrams
• Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, Spake, kapes, peaks, spake
Source: Wiktionary
Speak, v. i. [imp. Spoke (Spake ( Archaic); p. p. Spoken (Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] Etym: [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]
1. 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. 1 Sam. iii. 9.
2. 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. Macaulay.
3. 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. Clarendon.
4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of Cæsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison.
5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. Shak.
6. 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.
Speak, v. t.
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.
2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. Shak. Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.
4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer.
5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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