speech
讲话,发言,言语,演讲
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- : the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- : the act of speaking: He expresses himself better in speech than in writing.
- : something that is spoken; an utterance, remark, or declaration: We waited for some speech that would indicate her true feelings.
- : a form of communication in spoken language, made by a speaker before an audience for a given purpose: a fiery speech.
- : any single utterance of an actor in the course of a play, motion picture, etc.
- : the form of utterance characteristic of a particular people or region; a language or dialect.
- : manner of speaking, as of a person: Your slovenly speech is holding back your career.
- : a field of study devoted to the theory and practice of oral communication.
- : Archaic. rumor.
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Examples
Kids are interacting with Alexas that can record their voice data and influence their speech and social development.
The attorney general delivered a controversial speech Wednesday.
For example, my company, Teknicks, is working with an online K-12 speech and occupational therapy provider.
Instead, it would give tech companies a powerful incentive to limit Brazilians’ freedom of speech at a time of political unrest.
However, the president did give a speech in Suresnes, France, the next day during a ceremony hosted by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.
After pondering over Mr. Blackbird's speech for a few moments he raised his head.
Albinia, I have refrained from speech as long as possible; but this is really too much!