What does SPEAKING mean?
Definitions for SPEAKING
ˈspi kɪŋspeak·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word SPEAKING.
Princeton's WordNet
speaking, speech productionnoun
the utterance of intelligible speech
public speaking, speechmaking, speaking, oral presentationadjective
delivering an address to a public audience
"people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking"
speaking(a)adjective
capable of or involving speech or speaking
"human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play"
Wiktionary
speakingnoun
One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language.
speakingnoun
The act of communicating vocally.
speakingnoun
An oral recitation of e.g. a story.
speakingadjective
Used in speaking.
one's normal speaking voice
speakingadjective
Expressive; eloquent.
The sight was more speaking than any speech could be.
speakingadjective
Involving speaking.
It was her first speaking part: she screamed.
speakingadjective
Having the ability of speech.
speaking parrot; speaking clock
Wikipedia
speaking
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are the same word, e.g., "role" or "hotel"), and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' function in a sentence. In speaking, speakers perform many different intentional speech acts, e.g., informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and can use enunciation, intonation, degrees of loudness, tempo, and other non-representational or paralinguistic aspects of vocalization to convey meaning. In their speech, speakers also unintentionally communicate many aspects of their social position such as sex, age, place of origin (through accent), physical states (alertness and sleepiness, vigor or weakness, health or illness), psychological states (emotions or moods), physico-psychological states (sobriety or drunkenness, normal consciousness and trance states), education or experience, and the like. Although people ordinarily use speech in dealing with other persons (or animals), when people swear they do not always mean to communicate anything to anyone, and sometimes in expressing urgent emotions or desires they use speech as a quasi-magical cause, as when they encourage a player in a game to do or warn them not to do something. There are also many situations in which people engage in solitary speech. People talk to themselves sometimes in acts that are a development of what some psychologists (e.g., Lev Vygotsky) have maintained is the use of silent speech in an interior monologue to vivify and organize cognition, sometimes in the momentary adoption of a dual persona as self addressing self as though addressing another person. Solo speech can be used to memorize or to test one's memorization of things, and in prayer or in meditation (e.g., the use of a mantra). Researchers study many different aspects of speech: speech production and speech perception of the sounds used in a language, speech repetition, speech errors, the ability to map heard spoken words onto the vocalizations needed to recreate them, which plays a key role in children's enlargement of their vocabulary, and what different areas of the human brain, such as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, underlie speech. Speech is the subject of study for linguistics, cognitive science, communication studies, psychology, computer science, speech pathology, otolaryngology, and acoustics. Speech compares with written language, which may differ in its vocabulary, syntax, and phonetics from the spoken language, a situation called diglossia. The evolutionary origins of speech are unknown and subject to much debate and speculation. While animals also communicate using vocalizations, and trained apes such as Washoe and Kanzi can use simple sign language, no animals' vocalizations are articulated phonemically and syntactically, and do not constitute speech.
ChatGPT
speaking
Speaking is the act of expressing or conveying thoughts, ideas, feelings or information through verbal communication using a particular language. It involves the use of voice, tone, pitch, volume, and sometimes non-verbal cues to create understandable and meaningful sounds.
Webster Dictionary
Speaking
of Speak
Speakingadjective
uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube
Speakingadjective
seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness
Editors Contribution
speaking
The ability, act and process of to speak.
He was speaking with such love and unity, a real joy is her future husband.
Submitted by MaryC on April 6, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'SPEAKING' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2091
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'SPEAKING' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1092
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SPEAKING in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SPEAKING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of SPEAKING in a Sentence
While I do think that there may be some role for hormone replacement therapy or shoe inserts for active individuals in a preventative or treatment sense for these problems, someone who is interested in pursuing one of these treatments should consider speaking to an orthopaedic surgeon or to his or her doctor, for instance, people have different anatomy of their feet, such as high arches or flat feet, and might benefit from shoe inserts or orthotics, while others might not.
This has been going on for a very long time, and I'm glad that people are speaking out about it.
Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam:
Internationally speaking, the Swiss business is the most underestimated part of Credit Suisse and the share sale will reveal its value.
If The Times.Read More happens at that moment, you discuss The Times.Read More at that moment, you make The Times.Read More a real thing by making The Times.Read More a police report. I'm going to really hate Lindsay Lohan for saying this, but I think by women speaking against all these things, it makes them look weak when they are very strong women. You have these girls who come out, who don't even know who they are, who do it for the attention. That is taking away from the fact that it happened.
If you look at some of Obama’s speeches, like when he offered praise for the oil and gas industry in 2012 while speaking in Oklahoma, it is clear they are both on the same side, the administration has done an inadequate job in getting where we need to be [in protecting the environment] and contesting this case is just another example of how [Obama] is supporting the fossil fuel industry.
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Translations for SPEAKING
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- SprechenGerman
- berbicaraIndonesian
- 話すJapanese
- 말하기Korean
- речь, разгово́р, выступле́ние, говоря́щий, говоре́ниеRussian
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