Word Finder - spoken

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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.

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Relating to speech

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Speaking in a specified way

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soft-spoken

We hadn't spoken in several weeks.

His words were spoken with an unusual amount of venom.

She knew what the answer was, but hadn't spoken it.

Carmen had already spoken to Mums about it.

I've spoken with Cooms, a few times.

I haven't spoken to her.

Those were the last words spoken as I turned out the light.

Her face felt hot when she thought of how she had spoken of him.

He hadn't spoken or drawn weapons on her.

While his form was large enough to be a man the size of Damian's Guardians, his voice was terrified and gravelly, as if he hadn't ever spoken to anyone.

I've spoken to him.

He'd spoken to his sisters in depth and learned quickly just how different she was, their tales ranging from those that ought to anger him to those that amused him.

She called and said she'd spoken with you.

Has he spoken to you of going away? she asked.

Have you spoken to Howie about this?

They hadn't spoken of the possibility of Cynthia's pregnancy since the topic was first mentioned.

I am glad I have spoken out fully.

It had been several days since I'd spoken to them.

She saw the thaw from the cactus daring anyone to touch him to the man she'd spoken to on the phone.

She heard several different languages spoken before those she passed fell silent.

Kisolm has already spoken to your father.

On many occasions, she'd seen the duplicity and cold manipulation he'd spoken of.

When spoken to the diaphragm vibrated, and thus set the carbon granules into vigorous vibration.

My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasili.

The spoken word is silver but the unspoken is golden.

I've spoken to the school and you can take the bus from there.

The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

It was the first words spoken to him by the sharp-tongued woman since the prior Tuesday evening when she'd first purchased the letters.

Dean hadn't spoken to Jake Weller in nearly two weeks when he gave the law man a call.

Gabriel had spoken of immortality, but Jackson had not given much thought to it, until hearing these words.

He understood the value of a gentle caress and a soft spoken word.

The praise was spoken grudgingly with a note bordering despair.

And yet, he had not spoken a word of disapproval.

The words were spoken with effort through his clenched teeth, as if the admittance was a personal insult.

He then seized, but soon released, Stephen Colonna and some other barons who had spoken disparagingly of him.

The Panayano dialect of the Visayan language is spoken by most of the inhabitants.

They may make certain concessions or privileges once given without any corresponding obligation; they constitute for a given country a special ecclesiastical law; and it is thus that writers have sometimes spoken of concordats as privileges.

Such multiple-electrode transmitters give a loud although somewhat harsh sound, and will bear being spoken to very strongly without breaking the circuit.

Words spoken to the telephone at one end could be heard by holding the telephone to the ear at the other.

Latin will be counted the language of the earlier plebeian stratum of the population of Rome and Latium, probably once spread over a large area of the peninsula, and akin in sijme degree to the language or languages spoken in north Italy before either the Etruscan or the Gallic invasions began.

On the 12th of July 1871, Articles 268, 269 and 270 of the Italian Penal Code were so modified as to make ecclesiastics liable to imprisonment for periods varying from six months to five years, and to fines from 1000 to 3000 lire, for spoken or written attacks against the laws of the state, or for the fomentation of disorder.

At the end of May the pope, in an allocution to the cardinals, had spoken of Italy in terms of unusual cordiality, and had expressed a wish for peace.

We have already spoken of Kant's peculiar philosophical positions.

It is spoken throughout central Siam, in all parts of southern Siam except Patani Monton, in northern Siam along the river-banks as far up as Utaradit and Raheng, and in eastern Siam as far as the confines of the Korat Monton.

Of such monosyllables there are less than two thousand, and therefore many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, confusion being avoided by the tone in which they are spoken, whence the term" tonal,"which is applied to all the languages of this family.

Willmore, The Spoken Arabic of Egypt (2nd ed., London, 1905); Spitta Bey, Grammatik des arabischen Vulgardialektes von Agypten, Conies arabes modernes (Leiden, 1883).

Their language is the memory of the language they hear spoken in their homes.

At the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked the names of those who had come with Napoleon and about the uniforms they wore, and listened attentively to words spoken by important personages.

He recalled all the words spoken at that first meeting with Potemkin.

They trudged home without a word being spoken.