speechn.1
/spiːtʃ/, U.S. /spitʃ/ I. Senses relating to the act of speaking; talk.
1. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 13 There was speech in their dumbnesse, Language in their very gesture. View more context for this quotationin extended use.1866 B. Taylor Euphorion 273 The speech of winds.1904 A. C. Swinburne Channel Passage 181 The speech of storm, the thunders of the soul.† c. figurative. Mouth-piece; organ. Obsolete. rare.
a. The act of speaking; the natural exercise of the vocal organs; the utterance of words or sentences; oral expression of thought or feeling.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun]
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tonguec897
spellingc1000
wordOE
mathelingOE
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sermonc1275
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gale13..
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talea1325
parliamentc1325
winda1330
sermoningc1330
saying1340
melinga1375
talkingc1386
wordc1390
prolationa1393
carpinga1400
eloquencec1400
utteringc1400
language?c1450
reporturec1475
parleyc1490
locutionc1500
talk1539
discourse1545
report1548
tonguec1550
deliverance1553
oration1555
delivery1577
parling1582
parle1584
conveying1586
passage1598
perlocution1599
wording1604
bursta1616
ventilation1615
loquency1623
voicinga1626
verbocination1653
loquence1677
pronunciation1686
loquel1694
jawinga1731
talkee-talkee?1740
vocification1743
talkation1781
voicing1822
utterancy1827
voicing1831
the spoken word1832
outness1851
verbalization1851
voice1855
outgiving1865
stringing1886
praxis1950
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 299 Sermo, spręc.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care 274 Hit is awriten..ðætte hwilum sie spræce tiid, hwilum swiggean.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 7 Hig wenað þæt hi sin gehyrede on hyra menigfealden spæce.
c1230 Hali Meid. 17 Hire forme fulst is sihðe:..Speche is hire oðer help.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7197 Stalwarde mon of speche he was.
c1330 Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 628 Oure mayne þee knewe þat ilke nyȝt Bothe bi speche & by syȝt.
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1908) 53 For moche speche with oute frute is a grete vice and displesynge to god and man.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 783 Hoold vp youre hondes with outen moore speche.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. avi Than schir spynagrose with speche spak to ye king.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 264 In mekle speiche is pairt of vanitie.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 89 Thus the thoughtes and counsailes of the minde and spirite are discouered and manifested by speach.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 377 I with leave of speech implor'd, And humble deprecation thus repli'd. View more context for this quotation
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 221 This is adjusted to the true end of Speech, which is to be the easiest and shortest way of communicating our Notions.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xiv. 52 Men..express their Thoughts by Speech.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. i. 1 Since Speech then is the joint Energie of our best and noblest Faculties.
1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders IV. 176 A movement..attended with no speech, and very little noise.
1864 Reader 14 May 626 The author would define human speech as a method of expressing human thought by audible sounds.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 281 He accosts them, and first breaks silence in speech.
b. transferred. The speaking or sounding of a musical instrument, organ pipe, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun]
voicea1382
sonizance1589
speech1862
pearling1885
tum1911
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3377 Quickness of ‘speech’, flute-like quality of tone,..are some of the characteristics of the English harmonium.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 578 The manner of testing the ‘speech’ [of an organ] by blowing the pipe with the mouth in various ways.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building xii. 146 The speech of the pipe will be entirely unaltered.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who speaks for or on behalf of another
whistlec1380
dictourc1440
orator1474
prolocutor?a1475
prelocutor1500
vauntparler1534
paranympha1538
mouth1563
speech1578
speaker1583
promotor1603
ambassador1611
suffragant1613
suffragator1618
mouthpiece1776
linguist1819
megaphone1909
porte-parole1911
spokesperson1972
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 34 Certainly he was the mean & speech of al their proceedings.
d. spec. in Linguistics. = parole n.2
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1924 [see speech-utterance n. at Compounds 1a].
1935 W. F. Twaddell in Lang. Monogr. 16 40 The utterance occurs, it is speech, ‘parole’; the form exists, so to say, it is a part of the language ‘langue’.
1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men 16 De Saussure's famous lectures..in which the speech-language distinction is regarded as fundamental.
1953 U. Weinreich Lang. in Contact ii. 9 The question of merging vs. unmerged coexistence is a problem par excellence in speech-language relations.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 35 A second aspect of no less importance is the distinction between ‘language’ (langue) and ‘speech’ (parole).
1974 M. Taylor tr. C. Metz Film Lang. p. ix Speech (parole) is the antithesis, or, rather, correlative, of language system: language system is the social aspect of language, whereas speech is the utterance, the actual practice, of a language system.
2. † d. to take the speech [after French prendre la parole] , to take one's turn in conversation. Obsolete. rare.
a. Talk, speaking, or discourse; colloquy, conversation, conference. Commonly const. with or of (a person), and chiefly occurring in phrases, esp. to have speech. †in speech with, in negotiation with. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]
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reasonc1300
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counsela1350
intercommuningc1374
dalliancec1400
communication1419
communancec1449
collocutiona1464
parlour?c1475
sermocination1514
commona1529
dialogue?1533
interlocutiona1534
discourse1545
discoursing1550
conference1565
purposea1572
talk1572
interspeech1579
conversationa1586
devising1586
intercourse1596
intercommunication1603
eclogue1604
commercing1610
communion1614
negocea1617
alloquy1623
confariation1652
gob1681
gab1761
commune1814
colloquy1817
conversing1884
cross-talk1887
bull session1920
rap1957
(a)
(b)c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xxvii. 72 Hafa ðu mid þone ilcan biscop sprece & geþeahte hwæt to donne sy.c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 584 Seo cwen ða hæfde spræce wið Salomon.a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1085 Æfter þisum hæfde se cyng mycel geþeaht & swiðe deope spæce wið his witan ymbe þis land.c1275 Old Eng. Misc. 86 Ich hit am..þat wiþ þe holde speche.1489 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 15 I am in speche wyt Hewe Brone..for money.1596 J. Harington Let. to Lady Russell 14 Aug. in Metamorphosis Ajax (1814) p. xiv To make him come to speech with him.a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. v. 52 He desires Some priuate speech with you. View more context for this quotation1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre ii. 60 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian They came into Venetia; where having speech with Vitalius, they repented of their Errour against the Emperour.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiii. 322 When, in speech with each other, they expanded their blubber lips.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. ii. 101 There is speech of men in uniform with men not in uniform.(c)1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 2 Praie thee..deserue well at my hands, by helping me to the speech of Beatrice. View more context for this quotation1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. ix. 171 Look to it that none have speech of her.1858 M. Arnold Merope 928 A messenger..Arrived, and of the King had speech but now.1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xii. 165 He had come from London to get speech of his sweetheart.c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iii. xxviii. 248 Osweo..& Ecgberht..hæfdon betweoh him spræce & geþeahte, hwæt to donne wære [etc.].
c975 Rushw. Gosp. John xi. 47 Gisomnadun..ða biscopas & æ-larwas to sprece.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints iv. 342 Se dema..æfter langsumre spræce let þa modor to þam suna.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12803 Biforenn þatt filippe toc. To clepenn þe to spæche.
c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxiv. 70 We shalle take the right weye to the yonder lady of whiche we ben in speche.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 218 Montanio and my selfe being in speech, There comes a fellow. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1133 Adam..Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd. View more context for this quotation
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 208 Again the feast, the speech, the glee. View more context for this quotation
b. With possessive pronoun, or the and genitive: The opportunity of speaking or conversing with a person; an audience or interview with one. In phrases to come to speech, be admitted to speech, bring to speech, to (one's) speech. Now archaic or Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > audience or opportunity
speechc900
audience1514
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xxv. 58 Se cyning..het Agustinum mid his geferum þider to his spræce cuman.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1093 Ne mihte he beon weorðe..ure cynges spæce.
1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1123 Ær hi mihte cumen to þes papes spræce.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 16 Sche is come to lond and to þe speche of hir son.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxxiiijv Being admitted to his speache aboute the begynnynge of December.
1595 W. Raleigh Discov. Guiana 2 In all that time we came not to the speach of any Indian or Spaniard.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes ii. 169 I will bring you to the speech of her whom it represents.
1690 G. Farewell Def. Apr. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 187 He could never obtaine a releasement, or by any meanes come to the speech of any of their Magistrates.
1734 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 548 They were admitted after some time to the Speech of the Prisoners.
1778 Hist. Eliza Warwick II. 49 Sir Charles's valet..soon brought her to the speech of him.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 344 He found the means of getting to the speech of me in private.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 80 To the speech of the King you will not come so easily, unless you..meet him alone.
c. Mention of a thing. Also with no. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning > comment or remark
speechc1305
mindc1350
touchc1400
to make reporturec1475
observation1564
wipe1596
remark1629
propos1816
comment1850
by-the-way1896
trailer1941
c1305 Land Cokayne 111 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 159 N'is no spech of no drink, Ak take inoȝ wiþ-vte swink.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1115 Conuenyent hit is to knowe, of bathis Whil speche is mad [etc.].
1565 Randolph in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 194 The speech of this marriage to any of them all..is so much contrary to their desires that [etc.].
1592 Arden of Feversham iv. iv. 66 But see in any case you make no speache Of the cheare we had at my Lord Cheineis.
1659 H. Thorndike Wks. (1846) II. 550 Being meant of the vine which he had speech of a little afore that.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xix. 150 No payment of former loans had been made, nor had there been any speech of such.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > take turn in conversation or debate
to take the speech1612
to take the floor1804
to get or obtain the floor1816
to take up the ball1873
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. iv. xiv. 453 Then she taking the speech, demanded..whether I was a Gentleman.
3. † b. Const. with infinitive or clause. Obsolete.† c. in speech, spoken about, mentioned. Obsolete.
a. Common or general talk; report, rumour, or current mention of something. Frequently with much or great. Now rare or Obsolete. (Cf. 9a.)
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > rumour
speechc1175
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voicea1393
reportc1425
vox populic1547
talk1560
skealtc1575
vox pop1735
reverie1787
underbreath1880
scuttlebutt1901
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4877 All onn hæþing. & o skarn Off me gaþ eȝȝwhær spæche.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 4018 Þo was mochel speche ouer al þeos kineriche of Juden þare cwene.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 31 Anon as Demephon it herde, And every man it hadde in speche, His sorwe was noght tho to seche.
c1400 Three Kings Cologne (1886) 51 Grete speche was in all þe contrey among all þe pepil long tyme after of hem.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance Pref. f. iiiv And of this trayuayle.., I herd myche speech made, almoste euery weke.
1562 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 99 He sais he dwellid nere them, & ther was spech of such thinges, but he toke no hede of them.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. ii. sig. G Doctor Clement, what's he? I haue heard much speech of him. View more context for this quotation
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 211 My Lord, I haue heard much of your Hospitalitie, but I see it is greater then the speach.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. i. 101 There comes Committee Report on that Decree..and speech of repealing it.
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1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 309 Besides there was speech to sende fowre galliasses and twelue galleies.
1616 Sir C. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 250 There is now speech the Lord Chief Baron shall go into the King's Bench.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 5 In the mean time before there was yet any Speech, or endeavour to settle any other Plantation in those parts.
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the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > commenting or mentioning > mentioned
in speech1602
commemorate1671
1602 Sir H. Savile in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 36 A fit man is sought out to be employed.., and yourself already here in speech for that service.
1617–8 D. Carleton Lett. (1775) 233 I have been moved..concerning the residence of our merchant-adventurers, which hath been often attempted, and is now again in speech, to be removed from Middleburg.
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 13 The truest quarrel, though least in speech, I conceive to be the growth of the Athenian power.
II. Senses relating to manner or mode of speaking.figurative.1664 in G. Miege Relation of Three Embassies (1669) 373 Seeing upon so extraordinary occasions as these, the boldest Eloquence would lose its Speech.
4. The form of utterance peculiar to a particular nation, people, or group of persons; a language, tongue, or dialect.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun]
speechc888
rounOE
ledenc1000
tonguec1000
wordOE
moalc1175
speaka1300
languagec1300
land-speecha1325
talea1325
lip1382
stevenc1386
languea1425
leed1513
public language1521
idiom1575
idiotism1588
lingua1660
lingua franca1697
receptive language1926
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xviii. §2 Forðon hiora spræc is todæled on twa & [on] hundseofontig, & ælc þara spræca is todæled on manega þioda.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xi. 1 Ealle men spræcon ane spræce.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1095 Þa het he makian ænne castel..& hine on his spæce Malueisin het, þæt is on Englisc Yfel nehhebur.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16057 To spekenn wel. Wiþþ alle þede spæchess.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 130 & tær fore hafe icc turrnedd itt. Inn till ennglisshe spæche.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 665 Al was on speche ðor-bi-foren: Ðor woren sundri speches boren.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 93 Gildas..turnede þese tweie lawes out of Bretoun speche in to Latyn.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2270 Þat first was bot an and na ma, Nou er þer spechis sexti and tua.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) iii. 8 Þare er also many oþer diuerse cuntreezand spechez..obeyand to þe emperour.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xviii. 26 Speake to thy seruantes in the Syrians language,..and speake not vnto vs in the Iewes speche.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 137 In Scotlande they haue two sondry speches.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 17 Both the ffleminges and ffrench speach alltogether worne awaie.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 74 When from the original of the People he infers the same of the Speech.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 17 The several Families who understood one anothers Speech kept together.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 29 They deal in foreign gestures, And use a foreign speech.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iii. 37 There are at least two sounds in the Anglo-Saxon which are unknown in our present speech.
5. The faculty or power of speaking, or of expressing thoughts by articulate sounds.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > faculty or power of speech
speech?a1000
speaka1300
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utterance1474
speakingc1480
discourse1609
languagea1616
verbalness1647
vocal1838
speechfulness1880
?a1000 Laws Ethelb. (Liebermann) §52 Gif spræc awyrd weorð . xii. scillingas.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 288 Gif hwam seo spræc oþfylð.
c1053 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) ann. 1053 Þa færinga sah he niðer wið þæs fotsetles spræce benumen.
a1175 in Napier Holy Rood-tree 8 [Me] iðuht wæs þæt mi spece me ætfeallæn wæs.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7299 Hemm alle beþ o domess daȝȝ. Binumenn muþ. & spæche.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 495 Muð bute speche, ehnen buten sihðe.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1489 No ȝede he bot ten stride, His speche les he þar.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxiii Euerich beest þat is with oute lunges is with oute voice and speche.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 517 Yef I may see hys fase, For euer of hys speche I shall hym depryue.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 8 When in..man we..consider Speech: must wee not needes say that he was made to communicate himselfe to many?
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 434 That Speech was given to the Ordinary Sort of Men, whereby to Communicate their Mind; but to wise Men, whereby to conceal it.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 288 The Governor..had recover'd the use of his speech.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 30 Had Thought been All, sweet Speech had been deny'd.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 439 Soon after dawn the speech of the dying man failed.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iii. 88 Speech, even more than reason, distinguishes man from the brute.
6. Manner or mode of speaking; esp. the method of utterance habitual to a particular person. Usually with possessives.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun]
speechc1000
saying1340
accenta1398
tonguec1460
diction1563
address1581
elocution1604
tone1687
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 73 Soþlice þu eart of hym, & þin spræc [Hatt. sprace] þe geswutelað.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2208 Siþþenn seȝȝde he sone anan Wiþþ all full openn spæche [etc.].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8535 He was quointe of conseil & speke [v.r. speche] & of bodi strong.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 30 No non [was] so faire of face, of spech so lufly.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 797 O goode God! how gentil and how kynde Ye semede by your speche and your visage.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 123 And be I ornat in my speiche, Than Towsy sayis [etc.].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Mark xiv. 70 Thou art a Galilean, and thy speach soundeth euen alike.
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 347 Putting a corner of his handkercher in his mouth, bicause he would not be knowen by his speech.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Their speech is to be fashion'd to a distinct and cleer pronuntiation.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 346 His speech, his form, his action, full of grace.
1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 67 They are languid in their deportment and speech.
1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. App. 725 Charmed with the handsome countenance and ready speech of the youth.
III. Senses relating to the result of speaking.† 9. † b. A current saying or assertion. Obsolete.† c. A phrase, term, or idiom. Obsolete.† 10. † b. A manorial court in the Forest of Dean (cf. quot. 1687 and speech-house n.). Obsolete.
7. The result of speaking; that which is spoken or uttered:† c. = Logos n. Obsolete. rare.
a. With possessives, etc.: One's words, discourse, or talk.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken
speechc897
saw9..
speech971
wordOE
quideOE
wordsOE
wordOE
thingOE
rouna1225
mouthc1225
queatha1250
breathc1300
reasonc1300
speakingsa1325
swarec1325
saying1340
voicec1350
lorea1375
sermonc1385
carpc1400
gear1415
utterancec1454
parol1474
ditty1483
say1571
said1578
dictumc1586
palabra1600
breathing1606
bringinga1616
elocution?1637
rumblea1680
elocutive1821
vocability1841
deliverance1845
deliverment1850
deliverancy1853
verbalization1858
voicing1888
sayable1937
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > a speech
speechc888
speechc897
yeddingc950
talkation1781
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care 192 Ðu bist ðonne..gehæft mid ðinre agenre spræce.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John viii. 43 Sprec min ne ongeattas gie.
c1000 Lambeth Ps. xcviii. 172 Freabodaþ vel mærsað tunge min spæce þin.
c1075 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 1070 Þa angan Thomas his spæce hu he com to Cantuuarebyri [etc.].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18736 All þuss he spacc onn ȝæness hemm. To lihhnenn þeȝȝre spæche.
a1250 Prov. Ælfred (C.) 22 He was wis on his worde, and war on his speche.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27932 Speche o disur, Rimes vnright, gest of Jogolur.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John viii. 43 Whi knowen ȝe not my speche? for ȝe mown not heere my word.
c1450 Urbanitatis (Calig. A.ii) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 15 With þy speche þou may þe spylle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxv. 33 Blessed be thy speach, and blessed be thou.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum A j A.A.A which is the primitive Speache or naturall voyce of a Baby.
1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 43 You may frame your speech according to the matter you must worke on.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 1 They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech.
1779 Mirror No. 64 Every one seemed impatient of his neighbour's speech, and eager to have an opportunity of introducing his own.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xi. 275 A man, whose mixed speech of earthly wealth and unearthly..knowledge, has in it what does..captivate.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey ix. 117 We may be quite sure that as our speech is, so we are.
b. In general use.part of speech: see part n.1 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken
speechc897
saw9..
speech971
wordOE
quideOE
wordsOE
wordOE
thingOE
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reasonc1300
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swarec1325
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say1571
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bringinga1616
elocution?1637
rumblea1680
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vocability1841
deliverance1845
deliverment1850
deliverancy1853
verbalization1858
voicing1888
sayable1937
971 Blickl. Hom. 225 Ne gehyrde nænig man on his muþe oht elles nefne Cristes lof & nytte spræce.
a1023 Wulfstan Homilies 299 Halig geþanc and god spæc and fullfremed worc.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1114 He wolde sprecon mid him dærne sprece.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 224 Pandrasum þene king he grette mid greiðlicre speche.
c1275 Passion our Lord 257 in Old Eng. Misc. Vre louerd hym onswerede myd swyþe veyre speche.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ii. 23 Fauuel with feir speche haþ brouȝt hem to-gedere.
a1400–50 Alexander 739 Reviles he þis oþire renke with vnrid speche.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. aiii [He] defendeth with highe and clamorous wordes or speche his opinyon.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. ii. 10 The Statutes..Doe all (in plaine speach) couple the maintenance of the Peace, with the pursuing of sutes.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Tim. v. 13) The Rabbins have a Proverb, that ten Kabs of speech descended into the world, and the women took away nine of them.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxiv. 98 Speech is either perfect or imperfect. Perfect is that that absolves the sentence; an imperfect is not.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Ginevra in Posthumous Poems (1824) 231 If..wildered looks, or words, or evil speech,..can impeach Our love.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 184 Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, and lips.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 14 Speech is uttered thought.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as word of God
wordOE
Logos1587
speech1587
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. v. 57 The same thing which in the Trinitie we call the Sonne, the Word, or the Speech.
8. † b. An account or mention of something. Obsolete.† c. A talk or discourse between persons or with another. Obsolete.
a. A certain number of words uttered by a person at one time; esp. a more or less formal utterance or statement with respect to something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > a speech
speechc888
speechc897
yeddingc950
talkation1781
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §1 Hwæðer ðu nu ongite hwider þios spræce wille?
971 Blickl. Hom. 195 Þa mycclan spræca..weorþaþ him þonne ealle on heaf gehwyrfede.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xvii. 22 God þa astah upp..siððan he þas spræce geendod hæfde.
a1200 Vices & Virtues 11 Godes forbode, ðe me forbett alle euele spaches.
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 353 Gin þu neuere leuen alle monnis spechen.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. x. 34 Alle þing at his wille was wrouȝt wiþ a speche.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1261 Þe knyȝt with speches skere Answared to vche a cace.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 47 Onone quhen this amyable had endit hir speche..the laif allowit hir mekle.
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Gi Yf thone be through the sayd speche autorysed to sacryfyce christis body, the other is in lyke maner.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋3 He would not suffer it to be broken off for whatsoeuer speaches or practises.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xii. 181 Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
1710 Tatler No. 266. ⁋3 I began to make him compliments of condolence; but he started from his chair, and said, Isaac, you may spare your speeches.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 147 His quivering lip and lurking eye made her almost repent the boldness of her speech.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xv. 284 From the speeches of these men who were my warders just now, I learn that I am a prisoner.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 244 The traveller returned no answer to this speech.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > an account of something
speecha1387
recitalc1550
narrative1571
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 223 By þat wall is þe bath Byaneus made, of þe whiche baþ was raþer a speche [L. de quo supra dicitur].
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > a, the, or this conversation
speakc1300
dialoguec1450
speech1469
talk1548
colloquy1581
enterparlance1595
dialogism1603
colloquium1609
discourse1632
conversea1645
colloque1658
conversation1694
say1786
intercommune1820
tell1864
chin1877
conversation piece1936
rabbit1941
rabbit and pork1941
goss1983
1469 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 23 It were well done that ye had a speech with Mr. Midleton of the forme of the pleading.
1483 Cath. Angl. 352/2 A Speche, colloquium.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 I hard..Ane hie speiche at my hand with hautand wourdis.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 507 Hitherto, I have related the speech, which the Angel had with me.
d. An address or discourse of a more or less formal character delivered to an audience or assembly; an oration; also, the manuscript or printed copy or report of this. Also †His Majesty's Speech, Speech from the Throne, King's (or Queen's) Speech: a speech delivered by the sovereign (in person or by commission) at the opening or prorogation of Parliament; now spec. the speech delivered by the sovereign at the opening of Parliament, written by his or her ministers and setting forth the policies and legislative programme of the Government. Also, a speech delivered by the representative of the sovereign at the opening of the legislative assembly of a member of the Commonwealth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech
speakingc1275
cry1303
orisona1382
sermonc1385
exhortationc1450
oration?1504
prepositiona1513
declamation1523
concion1541
speak1567
set speech1573
speech1583
hortative1612
allocution1615
public addressa1639
address1643
presentation1714
speechification1809
speechment1826
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > for specific occasion or purpose
His Majesty's Speech1583
New Year1595
panegyry1602
panegyric1603
remembrancea1616
valediction1619
panegyris1646
areopagitic1649
Hesped1650
allocution1689
maiden speech1702
Speech from the Throne1751
patter1772
inaugural1832
acceptance speech1855
oraison funèbre1856
keynote speech1863
keynote address1891
valedictory1892
keynote1896
pep speech1912
pep talk1913
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > speech from throne
His Majesty's Speech1583
Speech from the Throne1751
throne speech1833
1583–4 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 631 Maister Andro Melvile..answerit that, althocht the speitche [sc. a sermon] wer alledgit to be treasoun, yit the tryell in the first instance aucht not to be befoir the King, bot befoir the Kirk.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 1 M. Selden reported to the House that his Majesties Speech made the last day of the Parliament, in the upper House, is also entred by his Majesties command.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 5 (heading) The Kings Speech.
1604 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 22 Mar. 3 28 His Mats speach ended, Mr Speaker..presented himselfe to his Matie.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Nn4v Demosthenes..had readie framed a number of Prefaces for Orations and Speeches . View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 71 After him Sir Francis Bacon concluded the accusation with a very eloquent speech.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 93 Some Patriot Fools to pop'lar Praise aspire, Of Publick Speeches, which worse Fools admire. View more context for this quotation
1751 Parl. Hist. Eng. I. 279 Nor, like the former Speech from the Throne, is it mention'd by any Historian.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 151/2 Four days after the speech was delivered, her royal highness carried it to the assembly of the States General.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlii. 136 The consideration of his Majesty's speech, of 13. November, 1770, and the subsequent measures of government.
1792 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Dec. (1927) III. 395 The Kings Speech in the House of Lords, a very long one.
1825 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. iv. 272 His speech from the throne was calculated more to irritate than to allay the jealousy of those who trembled for the liberties of their country.
1844 T. E. May Law of Parl. vii. 142 The session is opened at once by the Queen's speech.
1844 T. E. May Law of Parl. xxi. 326 On the opening of Parliament, the Queen, in her speech from the throne, addresses the commons.
1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 214 The difference between a speech and an essay should be something like that between a field of battle and a parade.
1855 C. Dickens Let. 30 June (1993) VII. 665 They are going to print my speech in a tract-form.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 1/1 The Council for the settlement of the Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Jan. 4/1 The opening [of the Legislative Assembly] will be attended with the usual ceremonies, and in the King's Speech will be indicated some of the salient points of the government policy.
1923 J. C. W. Reith in Radio Times 23 Nov. 290/3 At the opening of Parliament..our proposal to broadcast the King's Speech was..declined.
1964 L. A. Abraham & S. C. Hawtrey Parl. Dict. 165 A Queen's speech is read by the Lord Chancellor on proroguing Parliament, but this is never debated... This speech reviews the session which it concludes.
1971 Guardian 17 Aug. 2/1 The traditional Speech from the Throne read in Maltese by the new Governor-General.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 508 As a backbencher I never dreamed of attending the Queen's Speech debates, regarding them as the most boring occasions.
e. A school exercise or composition declaimed or recited upon speech-day.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > something to be recited or read aloud
lurryc1580
reciter1760
speaker1774
piece1822
speech1886
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xviii. 173 The proceedings on this anniversary begin with the ‘speeches’, delivered in ‘Upper School’, in Greek, Latin [etc.].
a. A report or rumour. Obsolete. (Cf. 3.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]
speechc1000
wordOE
hearinga1300
opinion1340
talesa1375
famea1387
inklinga1400
slandera1400
noising1422
rumour?a1425
bruit1477
nickinga1500
commoninga1513
roarc1520
murmura1522
hearsay?1533
cry1569
scandal1596
vogue1626
discourse1677
sough1716
circulation1775
gossip1811
myth1849
breeze1879
sound1899
potin1922
dirt1926
rumble1929
skinny1938
labrish1942
lie and story1950
scam1964
he-say-she-say1972
factoid1973
ripple1977
goss1985
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 17 Ða ferde þeos spæc [v.r. spræc] be him on ealle iudea.
a1400–50 Alexander 1884 For þan sall spring vp þe speche & sprede out of mynd, How I haue conquired a kyng þe kidest of þe werd.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 760 That there was a speech of a marriage to be made betwixt Mustapha and the Persian kings daughter.
1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 145 There is a speech here of many tropes discharged by Cromwells consent.
1660 Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Rec. in Geneal. Q. Mag. 3 29 There was a speech that one Mr. Browne..had lost a mare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun]
saw9..
quideOE
yedOE
wordOE
wisdomc1175
bysawe?c1225
riotc1330
sentencec1380
textc1386
dict1432
diction1477
redec1480
say1486
adage1530
commonplace?1531
adagy1534
soothsay1549
maxima1564
apophthegm1570
speech1575
gnome1577
aphorisma1593
imprese1593
spoke1594
symbol1594
maxim1605
wording1606
impress1610
motto1615
dictum1616
impresa1622
dictate1625
effate1650
sentiment1780
great thought1821
brocarda1856
text-motto1880
sententia1917
1575 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1907) I. 64 The common speech is, spend and God will send.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 20v The common people haue a speache, that ground enriched with Chalke, makes a riche father, and a beggerly sonne.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xvii. 257 It was the common speech, that the Holy land long since had been wonne, but for the false collusion of the Templars..with the Infidels.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §411. 177 It is a common speech, That the dower of a woman ought to be assigned unto her by metes and bounds.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun]
locution?a1475
phrase1530
saying1530
comma1592
speecha1599
standa1626
gramm1647
dictiona1660
roada1690
slip-slop1823
construct1871
group word1888
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 108 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) For Borh in old Saxon signifieth a pledge or surety, and yet it is so used with us in some speeches, (as Chaucer saieth) St. Iohn to Borh.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 513 In ancient time, a mouse-killer was taken for an opprobrious speech.
1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 191 Vorstius thinks it a speech taken from the custome of souldiers or Cities.
a. A claim, cause, or suit, esp. of a legal nature; a law-plea. Obsolete (common in Old English).
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit
speechc897
mootc1225
pleadingc1275
pleac1300
actiona1325
quarrela1325
suit1348
pursuit1380
sokena1387
process1395
plead1455
pleament1480
suit in law1530
ployc1600
suit in equity1604
suit in chancery1621
lawsuit1624
instance1654
legal action1656
lis1932
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxviii. 196 Ðeah hie ryhte spræce hæbben hiera yfel on him to tælonne.
961 in Thorpe Charters 203 Þæt þis æfre gesett spræc wære.
c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) ix. 4 Forðam þu demst minne dom and mine spræce.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 And ȝief he him [sc. his underling] set a speche and mid woȝedome binimeð him his biliue.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 398 Þe nyhtegale..hire ofþuhte þat heo hadde Þe speche so feor uorþ iladde.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 545 Yet nis þeos speche ibroht to dome.
c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 489 Frome the morowe gan this spech last Tyll don-warde went the sonne wonder fast. [Cf. 495 Whan shall your cursyd pledynge haue an ende.]
c1450 Godstow Reg. 157 The sentence of this covenaunte..was, that the said Abbesse shold withdraw her speche the which she hadde ayenst the said Symond afore the kyngis Iustice.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > forest-courts
swanimote1189
wood-speech1222
justice seat1607
wood-motea1610
Eyre of the Forest1622
wood-plea court1672
speech1687
forest-court1768
1687 Customs Miners Dean Forest 15 §26 The Constable..shall deliver the Miners in six weeks at the Speech, that is the Court for the Wood before the Verderors,..sufficient of Timber [etc.].
11. slang. (See quot. 1874.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > [noun] > special or useful
hint1777
wrinkle1818
tip1845
hunch1849
the straight tip1871
kinklea1873
speech1874
quiff1881
pointer1884
griffin1889
griff1891
tip-off1901
rumble1905
wheeze1906
drum1915
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 303 Speech, a tip or wrinkle on any subject. On the turf a man will wait before investing on a horse until he ‘gets the speech’, as to whether it is going to try, or whether it has a good chance. To ‘give the speech’, is to communicate any special information of a private nature.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive.
speech-acoustics n.
ΚΠ
1949 Archivum Linguisticum 1 i. 42 Philologists are beginning to turn away from phonetics to speech-acoustics.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 222 A treatment of speech acoustics up to spectrography.
speech act n.
Π
1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior ii. 37 There is no language..without the production of sign-vehicles, and it is such production which constitutes a speech-act.
1962 J. L. Austin et al. How to do Things with Words iv. 40 Here there is an obvious parallel with one element in lying, in performing a speech-act of an assertive kind.
1974 D. Hymes Found. Socio-ling. ii. 52 A party (speech situation), a conversation during the party (speech event), a joke within the conversation (speech act).
1982 Papers Dict. Soc. N. Amer. 1977 86 Speech acts are not predictable from code characteristics either.
speech-apparatus n.
ΚΠ
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 430/2 The machinery of respiration, of vocalization, and of enunciation, together constitute the speech-apparatus.
speech-behaviour n.
ΚΠ
1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality ii. 22 There is the person whose speech-behaviour adumbrates what would develop if at this point the speaker received encouragement.
1980 Eng. World-wide 1 283 Seven of the essays are by German-writing authors on linguistic problems of German, ranging from urban speech (Vienna) to the speech behaviour of accused in court.
speech-break n.
ΚΠ
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. The great Speech-break at Babel.
speech-breathing adj. and n.
ΚΠ
1955 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 46 54 Measures of speech-breathing activity promised to be more immediately relevant to the changing states of tension and affect during interview.
1977 D. Fry Homo Loquens iii. 23 An interesting feature of speech breathing is that the moments at which we breathe in are far from being arranged haphazard.
speech-correctionist n.
ΚΠ
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vii. 267 Speech correctionists and educators... One Negro speech correctionist-psychologist..went so far as to indulge in a little too-elementary learning theory: language, being a learned activity, can be learned badly.
speech-deafness n.
ΚΠ
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 429 To this condition Lichtheim gave the name of ‘isolated speech-deafness’.
speech defect n.
ΚΠ
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 394 Aphasia and other Speech Defects.
speech-element n.
ΚΠ
1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus I. Introd. 179 In the latest of our Gospels..the overweight is again on the side of the speech-element.
speech-energy n.
ΚΠ
1943 Electronic Engin. 16 69 No single curve can be taken as universally representative of the distribution of speech energy throughout the audio frequency band.
speech-event n.
ΚΠ
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. ii. 24 We have yet to examine B, the speech-event in our story.
1948 J. R. Firth in Lingua I. 400 A speech event in a context of situation is therefore a technical abstraction from utterances and occurrences. A speech event may be sub-divided into speech items.
1976 Word 27 197 In my analysis, the communicative process is divided into the threefold gradation proposed by Hymes of speech situation, speech event, and speech act.
speech-feeling n.
ΚΠ
1916 L. Bloomfield in Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XLVII. 13 Our speech-feeling seems to distinguish quite clearly between predicating and non-predicating utterances.
1979 Amer. Speech 1976 51 135 The double negative is both a part of our speech-feeling and a sensible way to strengthen a negative statement.
speech-form n.
ΚΠ
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 9 The main marks of south-western English, as it differs from the speech-forms of the north.
speech genius n.
ΚΠ
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) vii. 301 Grimm bewails this seduction of the speech-genius from the true path.
speech-group n.
ΚΠ
1925 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 245 Linguistically considered, England, the Dominions, and the United States may almost be regarded as one speech-group.
1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. v. 124 There are phase-differences between different speech-groups, and it would be unsafe to assume that the words currently fashionable in a Birmingham rock-and-roll club were simultaneously fashionable in a West End night-club, or that the picturesque phrases used by schoolboys were still fashionable in R.A.F. messes.
speech-habit n.
ΚΠ
1928 O. Jespersen Internat. Lang. i. 26 Everybody will necessarily transfer some of his speech-habits to the international language.
1979 M. Millar Murder of Miranda ii. 72 It's a speech habit I picked up from all the teenagers.
speech impediment n.
ΚΠ
1886 M. F. Tupper My Life as Author 133 As a youth..I was, from the speech-impediment since overcome, isolated from the gaieties of society.
speech-material n.
ΚΠ
1912 A. D. Sheffield Gram. & Thinking vii. 188 Sentence-study..can profitably keep in view the diverse speech-material that the pupil meets in his work with foreign languages.
1962 A. J. Bliss in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Med. Studies presented to J. R. R. Tolkien 29 Either a fragment of speech-material has one of the rhythms which are acceptable, in which case ictus and stress inevitably coincide; or else it cannot be used in verse at all.
speech-melody n.
ΚΠ
1934 Ess. & Stud. 19 141 This speech-melody of ordinary intercourse.
1970 Eng. Stud. 51 278 This latter feature, also known as intonation or speech melody, is of course almost a subject in itself.
speech-movement n.
ΚΠ
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) Pref. to Notes 96 It was at one time the author's practice to use a very elaborate system of marks, all indicating the speech-movement.
1957 C. E. Osgood et al. Measurem. of Meaning i. 12 Little or no correspondence between thought-movements and speech-movements was found.
speech note n.
ΚΠ
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 429/1 The voice..may possess the peculiar conditions of those distinctions which constitute speech-notes.
speech-organ n.
ΚΠ
1925 J. H. Grattan & P. Gurrey Our Living Lang. p. xxi Sounds are produced and modified by the position of speech-organs.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 217 Theory of the syllable must be based on the articulatory movements of speech organs.
speech-pattern n.
ΚΠ
1936 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (U.K. ed.) v. 195 One infers the nature of speech-patterns from the exemplifications of the patterns, i.e. the configurations of speech-elements.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xxix. 207 His speech patterns were as elaborate as ever, but his voice was no longer so well modulated.
1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 80 The restricted and elaborate codes which characterize the speech patterns of the lower and middle classes respectively.
speech-response n.
ΚΠ
1927 G. A. de Laguna Speech ii. 36 The correlation between the speech-response and its objective conditions is a correlation between independently variable elements of resonse and independently variable elements of the external situation.
speech-rhythm n.
ΚΠ
1910 G. Saintsbury Hist. Man. Eng. Prosody iv. iii. 316 The presence of closely allied forms [of the alliterative line], in the different Scandinavian and Teutonic languages, assumes..a natural rise from some speech-rhythm or tune-rhythm proper to the race and tongue.
1976 J. Lee Ninth Man 275 His poor father with the snicker-provoking Germanic speech rhythms.
speech science n.
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1933 Amer. Speech 8 37/1 Graduate curricula in speech science, phonetics, speech psychology, and rhetoric.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 530 First degrees..are awarded..in Speech Science by the University of Sheffield.
speech-situation n.
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1953 Eng. Stud. 34 258 ‘Man’ and ‘garden’ in this context denote..definite, individualized concepts... Taken out of the context (or of the speech-situation) they are semantically colourless.
1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 99 This is still used..if at least one of the participants in a speech situation has not been educated in English or..Bahasa Malaysia.
speech-sound n.
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1840 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 21 Dec. (1954) I. 77 Pray bring Phonarthron—speech-sound is a boon that I often need—I shall expect from it..a key to the classic Oriental and Sclavonic tongues.
1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. Introd. 1 In order to write intelligibly on speech sounds, some systematic means of representing them must be adopted.
speech-stuff n.
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1934 J. Joyce Let. 9 Aug. (1966) III. 316 Also why for you make me big speechstuff about Frankee Doodles?
speech-style adj. and n.
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1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xi. 156 As a test of the validity of the speech-style conception we may inquire into its applicability to speech studies.
1978 Amer. Speech 53 66 Samarin notes that speech styles of glossolalia are socioculturally determined, as are speech styles of English prayers.
speech-system n.
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1946 H. Jacob On Choice of Common Lang. ii. ii. 96 Inflected systems are highly resistant to simplification... However, most of the European speech-systems have progressed considerably in the right direction.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 37 Whereas Aristotle started from..‘speech’ (parole), these philosophers had the speech-system (langue) in mind.
speech trap n.
ΚΠ
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 230 I can make speech-traps, in which I catch those who talk with me.
speech-unit n.
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1936 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (U.K. ed.) 233 A sentence is a speech-element, or a speech-unit.
1949 C. E. Bazell in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague V. 77 This succession of speech-units need not answer to anything in the system.
speech-utterance n.
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1924 L. Bloomfield in Mod. Lang. Jrnl. Feb. 319 Actual speech-utterance, la parole, varies not only as to matters not fixed by the system..but also as to the system itself.
1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 42 There is an inverse relationship between frequency of occurrence and the comparative perspicuity that accompanies the utilization of a speech-utterance.
speech voice n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 431/2 Respiration and speech-voice training will follow.
speech-way n.
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1931 H. N. Shenton et al. Internat. Communication i. 46 This approach to the problem might well be called a study of the speech~ways of mankind.
1955 Eng. Stud. 36 17 Current Elizabethan usage, harking back to much older, popular speechways.
1972 H. Kurath Stud. Area Ling. i. 12 Any native speaker's usage is in a large measure representative of the speechways of a social or age group in his community.
speech word n.
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1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. ix. 156 Yet even so with speech-words I answered again and spake.
b. With agent-nouns, verbal nouns, or present participles, as speech analyser, speech-bringer, speech-trainer, speech-writer; speech-bereaving, speech-getting, speech-making, speech-shunning, speech-training, etc.
ΚΠ
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77v The speech-shunning sores, and sight-ircking botches of theyr vnsatiate intemperance.
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. E1v If speech-bereauing loue will let thee speake.
1717 N. Rowe Poems in Wks. (1728) I. 79 That Tyburn-Tribe of speech-making Non-jurors.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude in Sibylline Leaves 66 A vain, speech-mouthing, speech-reporting Guild.
1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 419 One of our politicians..reproached him..with being a λογογράϕος, or speech-writer.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 23 Their miraculous healer and speech-bringer is rapt away.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ii. 13 The whole process of speech-getting.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 11/1 To complete any gaps there may be in the speech training of the members.
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 99 Many people..flare up at any suggestion (except from a speech-trainer consulted voluntarily) of possible improvements in their speech.
1973 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 18 90 Using the speech analyzer..we then recorded an intonation curve (in Hz) for each sentence on photo-sensitive paper.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iv. 88 The transatlantic custom of using speech-writers, recently imported into Britain for the use of certain eminent politicians and others, is only to be deplored.
1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. vii. 86 Young learners will learn best through mimicry with speech training games for interest and for special points of difficulty, but with little or no use of phonetics.
c. With past participles, as speech-bound, speech-famed, speech-flooded.
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1761 C. Churchill Rosciad 20 Was speech-fam'd Q——n himself to hear him speak.
1870 D. G. Rossetti House of Life in Poems xxii The speech-bound sea-shell's low importunate strain.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxiv. 611 England has since 1876 become the most speech-flooded country in the world.
C2. Special combinations:
speech area n. (a) a region of the brain involved in the comprehension or production of speech, a speech-centre; (b) a geographical area with a distinct speech type.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties
sensorium1613
sensitory1649
sensory1653
sensoriolum1715
respiratory centre1841
Broca1875
writing centre1878
speech-centre1881
heat-centre1884
speech area1885
pleasure centre1892
language area1898
motorium1900
isocortex1934
visceral brain1949
satiety centre1951
limbic system1952
reward cell1956
1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 638/2 (in figure) Speech area.
1913 Q. Rev. Jan. 124 Over a large portion of the highest level of the brain the special work of each group of cells or ‘area’ is now known. If our speech-areas are diseased we cannot speak.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iii. 51 Dialect atlases, collections of maps of a speech area with isoglosses drawn in, are an important tool for the linguist.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 95 Speech areas can be delineated and sub~divided on the basis of heteroglosses.
1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 52/1 (caption) The three speech areas [sc. Broca's area, superior area, Wernicke's area] shown on the left cerebral cortex.
speech-centre n. (see quots.).
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties
sensorium1613
sensitory1649
sensory1653
sensoriolum1715
respiratory centre1841
Broca1875
writing centre1878
speech-centre1881
heat-centre1884
speech area1885
pleasure centre1892
language area1898
motorium1900
isocortex1934
visceral brain1949
satiety centre1951
limbic system1952
reward cell1956
1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Centre Speech centre,..a cortical centre situated in the region of the posterior extremity of the third left frontal convolution.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 759 In their opinion this bundle..connects the cortical centre for sight with the auditory speech-centre.
speech chain n. Linguistics an utterance regarded as a sequence of elements.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > utterance regarded as sequence of elements
speech chain1950
1950 D. Jones Phoneme 1 Nearly every utterance, or ‘speech chain’, is made up of a large number of small elements.
1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form i. 5 But the smaller the number of choices, at any one point of the speech-chain, the smaller the probability of open juncture.
1963 P. B. Denes & E. N. Pinson (title) The speech chain: the physics and biology of spoken language.
speech clinic n. a centre for the treatment of speech defects.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > clinic > other types of clinic
screening clinic1943
speech clinic1963
emergicentre1981
abortuary1983
urgicentre1983
rehab1984
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > study, correction, or therapy > clinic
speech clinic1963
1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 320 The spread of technical medical terminology to education, as clinic (yielding reading clinic and speech clinic).
1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 146/2 A young man..who took a Ph.D. in speech pathology at Iowa in 1936 and then left to set up a speech clinic and research centre.
speech code n. Cryptography a simple verbal code formed by the regular substitution of secret words.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > particular codes
character1605
needle-alphabet1663
unicode1886
rail fence1916
Vigenère1916
Playfair1918
Playfair1932
one-time system1955
speech code1973
one-time cipher1977
1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing xviii. 221 Fred was the standard speech-code name for any third member of an active cell.
speech coil n. a coil that drives the cone of a loudspeaker according to the signal current flowing in it.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > loud speaker > part of
voice coil1913
speech coil1928
spider1928
port1944
1928 Wireless World 6 June 603/2 (caption) Various gauges of wire for speech coil.
1934 Discovery Oct. 301/2 The 2-in. speech coil attached to the 11-in. cone works in a flux density of 11,500.
1975 G. J. King Audio Handbk. vi. 132 The speech coil is composed of inductance, distributed capacitance and resistance.
speech-community n. Linguistics a group of persons sharing a language or variety of a language.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > speech community
speech-community1894
1894 G. E. Karsten in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. IX. 327 It is pre-eminently the speech-community which moulds the individual's language.
1911 L. Bloomfield in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 10 629 A language is formed (i.e., a new speech-community is segregated) by definite changes in the outer surroundings of a group of people.
1950 R. A. Hall Leave Your Lang. Alone! x. 153 Theoretically, it might be possible to keep an otherwise-normal speech-community hermetically sealed off from all outside sources of borrowing.
1978 K. Hudson Jargon of Professions 10 Speech communities are no longer as self~contained as they were.
speech-craft n. the knowledge or science of speech.
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1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason i. i. 6 The arte of measuring, witcrafte, speachcraft, starre-crafte, &c.
1878 W. Barnes (title) An Outline of English Speech-Craft.
speech-crier n. one who hawked the ‘last dying speeches’ of criminals.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
1856 J. Ballantine Poems 68 Ilk wee speech-crier, Ilk lazy ballant singin' idler.
1870 H. Lonsdale Life R. Knox vi. 109 Speech-criers of the last horrid doings of Burke and the doctors.
speech-day n. the day at the end of the school year upon which exercises are declaimed and the annual prizes distributed in certain public schools.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > special day or week
speech-day1847
spirit week1923
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiv. 203 He used to go down on speech-days..and scatter new shillings among the boys.
1898 G. W. E. Russell Coll. & Recoll. xxxv. 482 The budding scholar..declaimed his verses on Speech-day.
speech-fellows n. people who speak the same language.
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1920 Q. Rev. July 165 The tribe, understood as the group of speech-fellows.
speech-hall n. (cf. speech-room n.).
ΚΠ
1921 Spectator 14 May 619/1 Messrs. Newton's speech-hall for Marlborough.
speech island n. Linguistics a small area inhabited by speakers of a language or dialect other than that spoken in the surrounding areas.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > speech community > speech island
island1882
speech island1888
1888 M. D. Learned in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 9 65 We are to seek the causes which have contribued to the formation of this important speech-island in the domain of German dialects.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 60 One of these, Lusatian (Wendish, Sorbian), survives as a speech-island of some 30,000 persons in Upper Saxony.
1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvii. 5 In one instance, that of stone boat, there is an additional speech island along the Mississippi, opposite St. Louis.
1978 Amer. Speech 53 44 A large speech island appears in the German-settlement area of Missouri and Illinois.
speech pathologist n.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who treats defective speech
speech therapist1933
speech pathologist1972
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > speech therapist
speech therapist1933
phoniatrician1938
phoniatrist1950
speech pathologist1972
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vii. 267 A linguistically sophisticated speech pathologist like Joan Baratz.
1982 Amer. Speech 57 213 Speech pathologists, audiologists,..and many others have had some introduction to formal linguistic analysis.
speech pathology n. the study and treatment of defective speech.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > phoniatrics
speech pathology1931
speech therapy1933
phoniatry1941
phoniatrics1950
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > study, correction, or therapy
logopedia1923
speech pathology1931
speech therapy1933
shadowing1955
logopedics1960
1931 L. E. Travis Speech Pathol. p. vii Speech pathology is in its growing pains.
1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 148/2 One of his advisers suggested that he sign up instead for the graduate program in speech pathology at the University of Iowa.
speech physiology n. the study of the physical production of speech sounds.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonology and branches
tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1936 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (U.K. ed.) iii. 96 The experimental phoneticist..attempts to determine by his laboratory study of speech-physiology what changes [in a language] are possible.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 222 A treatment..of speech physiology by means of X-ray stills and films.
speech-prefix n. in the text of a play: the name or description of the speaker(s) of a line or lines, set at the head of each speech.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script > name or description of speaker
speech-prefix1959
1959 Notes & Queries June 213/1 It is therefore recommended that for the last speech of ‘Elder Worthy’ on I, 60..the speech-prefix ‘Young Worthy’ be substituted.
1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 12 There are eleven Latin speech-prefixes. The first five are ‘Omn.’ for all the characters on the stage.
speech psychologist n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > [noun] > study of language development > practitioner of
speech psychologist1937
1937 H. E. Palmer & A. S. Hornby Thousand-Word Eng. i. 21 It is in the nature of a designed plateau (as speech-psychologists call it), that is..a given stage..at which the learner may pause.
speech psychology n. the study or application of psychological methods and techniques useful in learning to speak a language.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > [noun] > study of language development
speech psychology1921
1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study 19 A logical order of progression in accordance with principles of speech-psychology.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 iv. 37/1 There are graduate curricula in speech science, phonetics, speech psychology, and rhetoric.
speech-reading n. the action of understanding speech from observing a speaker's lip movements; lip-reading; so speech-reader.
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > lip-reading
labiomancy1686
lip-reading1874
lip-language1879
speech-reading1891
the mind > language > a language > [noun] > lip-reading > one who uses
speech-reader1911
lip-reader1912
1891 R. Elliott Course Lessons Elem. Lang. Deaf Pref. p. v Speech and lip-reading should form the medium of communication and explanation.
1911 J. K. Love Deaf Child 161 The best speakers amongst the deaf and dumb are not always the best speech-readers.
speech recognition n. the process of identifying and interpreting or responding to the sounds produced in human speech.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonology and branches
tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1953 Fry & Denes in W. Jackson Communication Theory xxx. 426 (heading) Mechanical speech recognition.
1953 Fry & Denes in W. Jackson Communication Theory xxx. 427 The reasons for the failure of these..systems becomes clear when the mechanism of human speech recognition is considered.
1970 New Scientist 30 Apr. 216/2 Research on speech-recognition devices is still in its extreme infancy.
1980 TWA Ambassador Oct. 25/1 A second went to Bell Telephone Laboratories for a computerized speech-recognition system that can respond to human sentences.
speech recognizer n. a machine capable of responding to the content of speech.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > instruments or diagrams
phthongometer1837
logograph1879
glossograph1883
palate-myograph1884
palatogram1902
tongue-curve1902
kymograph1918
voiceprint1918
vowel diagram1932
kymogram1934
speech stretcher1948
word-palatogram1948
recognizer1949
phonolaryngoscope1953
speech recognizer1953
grid1961
voiceprinter1966
1953 W. Jackson Communication Theory 431 Any mechanical speech recognizer requires for its operation a considerable amount of linguistic information.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xi. 162 A ‘normal’ speech recognizer would recognise words regardless of the speaker.
speech-room n. the room or hall at Harrow School in which speeches are delivered.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school > other rooms in schools
speech-room1880
1880 G. O. Trevelyan Early Hist. C. J. Fox ii. 50 Fox..was always to the front both in the speech-room and the debating society.
1884 Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 347/2 My memory takes me back some five-and-twenty years to the old speech-room at Harrow.
1920 Times 3 Dec. 9/3 The competition for the Marlborough College War Memorial has been won by Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Newton... The memorial is to take the form of a speech-room.
speech-song n. = Sprechgesang n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > vocalization between speech and song
speech-song1909
Sprechstimme1922
Sprechgesang1925
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Speech-song.
1925 W. H. Kerridge tr. E. Wellesz Arnold Schönberg 138 The Dreimal sieben Gedichte (Thrice seven songs), from Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire..are written for a Sprechgesang (song-speech), piano, flute.., clarinet.., violin.., and violoncello.
1946 E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Music 580/1 Speech-song,..a term for a kind of singing that approximates to speech and touches the notes, indicated by special signs, without intoning them clearly at the proper pitch.
1959 Listener 17 Dec. 1093/2 The Roman practice of narrating during Holy Week the Evangelists' accounts of the Passion in a stylized speech~song (tonus lectionis).
1976 P. Stadlen in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 324 The Bible's casual hint at Moses' ‘heavy tongue’..[is] realized, by having Moses engage in speech song while..Aaron is made to sing.
speech stretcher n. Phonetics (see quot. 1972).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > instruments or diagrams
phthongometer1837
logograph1879
glossograph1883
palate-myograph1884
palatogram1902
tongue-curve1902
kymograph1918
voiceprint1918
vowel diagram1932
kymogram1934
speech stretcher1948
word-palatogram1948
recognizer1949
phonolaryngoscope1953
speech recognizer1953
grid1961
voiceprinter1966
1948 M. Joos Acoustic Phonetics 129 The usefulness of the speech stretcher for phonetic demonstration is immense.
1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 216/2 Speech stretcher, a device used in phonetic research to slow down recorded speech without changing the pitch or distorting it in any other way.
speech synthesizer n. a machine designed to generate sounds imitative of the human voice and recognizable as meaningful speech.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > machine imitating human voice
voice box1878
speech synthesizer1953
society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > sound or speech devices
speech synthesizer1953
voice synthesizer1963
MIDI1983
1953 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 25 735/1 A speech synthesizer would be required to simulate..closely the actual dimensions of the vocal tract.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 787/4 If the zealous phoneticist is dissatisfied with the acoustics of a real human voice he can nowadays, it seems, ring down for a speech synthesizer, couple it up to his computer, and manufacture ideal vowel sounds.
speech therapist n. one who practises this.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who treats defective speech
speech therapist1933
speech pathologist1972
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > speech therapist
speech therapist1933
phoniatrician1938
phoniatrist1950
speech pathologist1972
1933 S. M. Stinchfield Speech Disorders i. 10 A clinician, psychologist or speech therapist might suspect that one of the following conditions would be found in such a case. The child may be deaf, or some childhood illness may have slowed up his rate of development.
1975 M. Kenyon Mr Big ii. 21 A speech therapist..who'd insisted that correct speech being a matter of breath control for six months he would simply have to learn to breathe.
speech therapy n. the training of patients in the production of a full range of speech sounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > phoniatrics
speech pathology1931
speech therapy1933
phoniatry1941
phoniatrics1950
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > study, correction, or therapy
logopedia1923
speech pathology1931
speech therapy1933
shadowing1955
logopedics1960
1933 S. M. Stinchfield Speech Disorders vii. 141 It is worthwhile to spend some time in reviewing the more important types of nervous disorders, in order to better understand their implications, in undertaking speech therapy.
1976 E. Ward Hanged Man xl. 267 I took the speech therapy and the office-boy jobs.
speech-to-noise ratio n. the signal-to-noise ratio of speech.
ΚΠ
1951 Engineering 23 Feb. 226/3 Those concerned with the telephone apparatus..have paid much attention to questions of speech intelligibility, but in its broad aspects the matter is of direct interest to most shop executives. It is not their business to design loud speakers, but they are certainly concerned with the speech-to-noise ratio in workshops.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 221 Monosyllabic, bisyllabic, and trisyllabic words presented for identification in seven different speech-to-noise ratios.
Draft additions June 2018
speech bubble n. (in a cartoon or other illustration) a shape resembling a cloud, balloon, or bubble, containing text that represents a character's speech or thoughts; cf. bubble n. 5.
ΚΠ
1966 Art Internat. 10 vi. 51 At the bottom stands a smaller figure and the rest of the painting is contained in a speech-bubble coming out of its mouth.
1973 Elem. Eng. Apr. 562/2 (caption) Display speech bubble with words, ‘a winged, bi-ped apple!’
2013 Eye for Art (National Gallery of Art) 155/1 Lichtenstein used the design conventions of the comic strip: its speech bubble, flat primary colors, and ink-dot patterns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
speechn.2
? U.S.
(See quot. 1875.)
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2261/1 Speech, of a wheel, the hub with the spokes, without the fellies and tire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
speechv.
/spiːtʃ/, U.S. /spitʃ/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > get rid of by speaking
speech1654
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific immaterial things > by speech
speech1654
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 67 Doe but recount (for I must speech out this timorousnesse from thy head and heart).
2. To say or state in a speech or speeches. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > set forth with a speech
predicate1552
speech1682
oratorize1853
1682 Heraclitus Ridens 7 Feb. 2/1 The Bills of Exclusion and Association (whatever was Speech'd or Resolv'd to the contrary) are not now thought [etc.].
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 229 In speeching to the jury, one and the same matter, over and over again, the waste of time would be so great that..there would scarce be an end.
3. To make a speech to; to address in a speech; dialect, to speak or talk to. Also with complement.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > address with a speech
address1724
speech1818
speechify1862
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > speak or direct words to, etc.
speakc825
mint1493
sling1874
speech1877–86
word1905
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris ii. 35 Your Lordship, having speeched to death Some hundreds of your fellow-men, Next speeched to Sovereigns' ears,—and..at last Speeched down the Sovereign of Belfast.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. viii. 119 Upon which I immediately turned about to our own Regiment; speeched them, and made them huzzah.
1877–86 in Linc. glossaries.
4.
a. intransitive. To make or deliver a speech or speeches. Also with it. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)]
deliverc1400
repeat1579
speak1583
perore1594
perorate1603
oratorize1620
concionatea1641
speech1684
speechify1723
oration1764
orate1780
platform1859
elocutionize1883
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(b)1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg i. 9 He stood up upon the Bulks in Westminster-Hall, and speech'd against him from Morning till Night.1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 82 Lambton speeching till the lights are gone.1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 203 Tom Moore to Lord Lansdown is tipsily speeching.1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 612 He was fêted and speeched unto at divers and sundry towns.1864 A. Thomson in Remin. (1904) I. xviii. 299 Yesterday I speeched well at St. Andrews.1684 A. Wood Life 8 Nov. Mr. Charles Hickman..speech'd it in laudem Thomae Bodley in the Schola linguarum.
c1720 Fable Widow & Cat iv, in Prior's Wks. (1907) 383 But in a saucy manner He Thus Speech'd it like a Lechmere: ‘Must I [etc.].’
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 230 He was positive not to permit more than one counsel of a side to speech it to the jury.
b. To direct a speech or speeches at a person. Also dialect, to speak with some one.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > address someone [verb (intransitive)]
to call on ——a1400
to call upon ——c1405
address1608
speech1826
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ix. 236 Have I not been speeched at by their orators.
1888 K. Saunders Diamonds 30 He hasn't speeched wi' me much.
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