单词 | speak |
释义 | speak (once / 10 pages) v WORD FAMILY speak: misspeak, speakable, speaker, speaking, speaks, spoke, spoken+/misspeak: misspeaking, misspeaks/speakable: speakably, unspeakable/speaker: speakers, speakership/speaking: nonspeaking, speakingly, speakings/spoke: spokes/spoken: spokenest, spokenly, unspoken/unspeakable: unspeakably USAGE EXAMPLES“I felt like it was my responsibility to speak up.” The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) “I only tell you in case this is your son and maybe you should speak to him.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) To better understand this approach I spoke with the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v use language the prisoner won't speak they speak a strange dialect Syn|Hypo|Hyper talk run on talk or narrate at length smatterspeak with spotty or superficial knowledge slanguse slang or vulgar language communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 2v express in speech Syn|Hypo|Hyper mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize verbalise, verbalize be verbose read look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed phonate, vocalise, vocalizeutter speech sounds trollspeak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice beginbegin to speak or say lip off, shoot one's mouth offspeak spontaneously and without restraint shoututter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) whisperspeak softly; in a low voice peepspeak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice speak upspeak louder; raise one's voice snap, snarlutter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone enthuseutter with enthusiasm speak in tonguesspeak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy swallowutter indistinctly verbalise, verbalizebe verbose whiffutter with a puff of air talk about, talk ofdiscuss or mention blubber, blubber oututter while crying drone, drone ontalk in a monotonous voice bumble, falter, stammer, stutterspeak haltingly rasputter in a grating voice blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculateutter impulsively inflect, modulate, tonevary the pitch of one's speech deliver, presentdeliver (a speech, oration, or idea) generalise, generalizespeak or write in generalities blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddlespeak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly chattermake noise as if chattering away jaw, rattle on, yack, yack away, yap awaytalk incessantly and tiresomely open uptalk freely and without inhibition snivel, whinetalk in a tearful manner murmurspeak softly or indistinctly maunder, mumble, mussitate, muttertalk indistinctly; usually in a low voice slurutter indistinctly barkspeak in an unfriendly tone bayutter in deep prolonged tones jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spouttalk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner hiss, sibilate, siss, sizzexpress or utter with a hiss cackletalk or utter in a cackling manner babbleutter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way chant, intone, toneutter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically gulputter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly singproduce tones with the voice numerateread out loud as words written numbers dictatesay out loud for the purpose of recording discuss, hash out, talk overspeak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion blasphemespeak of in an irreverent or impious manner coospeak softly or lovingly scream, yellutter or declare in a very loud voice holler, holler outshout out roar, thunderutter words loudly and forcefully rhapsodise, rhapsodizesay (something) with great enthusiasm speechifymake speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality babble, blather, blether, blither, smatterto talk foolishly susurrateissue soft noises bawl, bellowshout loudly and without restraint placesing a note with the correct pitch trollsing loudly and without inhibition croonsing softly cantillate, chant, intonate, intonerecite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm descant, warble, yodelsing by changing register; sing by yodeling quaver, trill, warblesing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below treblesing treble humsing with closed lips callread aloud to check for omissions or absentees belt, belt outsing loudly and forcefully descant onsing a descant on a main tune or melody vocalise, vocalizesing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel harmonise, harmonizesing or play in harmony descantsing in descant sing alongsing with a choir or an orchestra psalmsing or celebrate in psalms minstrelcelebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels solmizatesing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale chirp, tweedlesing in modulation choir, chorussing in a choir singdeliver by singing communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 3v exchange thoughts; talk with Syn|Hypo|Hyper talk carry on, continue, go on, proceed continue talking discourse, dissertate, hold forthtalk at length and formally about a topic pontificatetalk in a dogmatic and pompous manner oratetalk pompously talk downspeak in a condescending manner, as if to a child spielspeak at great length (about something) dogmatise, dogmatizespeak dogmatically cheekspeak impudently to leveltalk frankly with; lay it on the line talk turkeydiscuss frankly, often in a business context monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquizetalk to oneself converse, discoursecarry on a conversation butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romancetalk or behave amorously, without serious intentions dish the dirt, gossipwag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies raptalk volubly argue, contend, debate, fencehave an argument about something segueproceed without interruption; in music or talk interview, questionconduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting interviewdiscuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation interviewgo for an interview in the hope of being hired bloviateorate verbosely and windily wantonengage in amorous play vampact seductively with (someone) chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visittalk socially without exchanging too much information bruit, rumor, rumourtell or spread rumors jog, ramble, ramble oncontinue talking or writing in a desultory manner communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 4v give a speech to Syn|Hypo address blaze away speak with fire and passion memorialise, memorializeaddress in a memorial keynotegive the keynote address to (an audience) haranguedeliver a harangue to; address forcefully 5v make a characteristic or natural sound The drums spoke Hyper sound give off a certain sound or sounds |
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