noun
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A low class bar, a speakeasy.
noun
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Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
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Corporate speak; IT speak.
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Speech, conversation.
verb
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To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
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I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
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To have a conversation.
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It's been ages since we've spoken.
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(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
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This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.
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To be able to communicate in a language.
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He speaks Mandarin fluently.
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To utter.
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I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
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To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
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(sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
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So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?
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To produce a sound; to sound.
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Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
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To address; to accost; to speak to.
Examples of speak in a Sentence
I started to speak but she shushed me.
All I want is a chance to speak my piece.
He simply continued to speak in a calm voice.
I'd say it's time to speak our minds.
You have to decide if it's important enough to speak up.
Before I could speak, he continued.
We speak English here.
I always make it a rule to speak out.
Let's give him the opportunity to speak his piece.
I'm sorry, but you weren't going to speak in your behalf.
When she did speak, her voice was filled with emotion.
She was half afraid to speak, fearful that a quake in her voice would expose her trepidation.
I'm not sure he can help me, but I would really like to speak to him.
She concentrated as hard as she could, listening for his body to speak to her.
I'll speak to him.
From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as she would speak to any hearing child; the only difference was that she spelled the sentences into my hand instead of speaking them.
Though his body didn't speak of it, she directed her power towards it as well.
He opened his mouth to speak and then clamped it shut.
He tried to speak but it took a few moments before the words were understandable.
The officer appeared abashed, as though he understood that one might think of how many men would be missing tomorrow but ought not to speak of it.
You are right that to speak to her of love at present...
Betsy agreed but suggested we wait until Molly finished her bath so she could speak with her mother first.
He didn.t speak much.
He probably hasn't had any cause to speak French.
Does he speak Mayan—or whatever Mayans speak?
A look of pained yearning crossed the girl's face, as if she wanted badly to speak but couldn't.
For a long moment, he was too surprised to speak.
When the time came for him to speak, his mother and the minister were both there to hear him.
Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall speak later.
I only spoke a few words, as I did not know I was expected to speak until a few minutes before I was called upon.
Kiki was waiting for him to speak.
He hears others speak, and he tried to speak.
They followed the course of a broad stream and passed several more pretty cottages; but of course they saw no one, nor did any one speak to them.
We shall speak, yes, and sing, too, as God intended we should speak and sing.
He started to speak several times, and then stopped.
To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life--I wrote this some years ago--that were worth the postage.
Or suppose he comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose praises are familiar even to the so-called illiterate; he will find nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it.
I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods.
Still, I will take Boris and go to see him at once, and I shall speak to him straight out.
For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped up from the sofa, seized Boris under the elbow in his quick, clumsy way, and, blushing far more than Boris, began to speak with a feeling of mingled shame and vexation.
The latter understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables.
Once or twice Pierre was carried away and began to speak of these things, but Nicholas and Natasha always brought him back to the health of Prince Ivan and Countess Mary Alexeevna.
Darkyn's daughter was unable to speak with the damage done to her head and neck.
May I speak with you?
Miriam's expression showed deep concern, though she didn't speak.
Connor wished he could comfort the women, yet knew if he tried to speak, he would break down.
Finally, Dean was the first to speak.
Their efforts in the struggle for the portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna Mikhaylovna.
The father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude.
But not to speak of the intrinsic quality of histories of this kind (which may possibly even be of use to someone for something) the histories of culture, to which all general histories tend more and more to approximate, are significant from the fact that after seriously and minutely examining various religious, philosophic, and political doctrines as causes of events, as soon as they have to describe an actual historic event such as the campaign of 1812 for instance, they involuntarily describe it as resulting from an exercise of power--and say plainly that that was the result of Napoleon's will.