dramatic production dramatic performance | the act of performing a drama, the group joined together in a dramatic production |
production | (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law, the appellate court demanded the production of all documents |
speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
production | the act or process of producing something, Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous, the production of white blood cells |
production | the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services |
production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale, he introduced more efficient methods of production |
mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
boring drilling oil production | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum |
art artistic creation artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
product production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process, they improve their product every year, they export most of their agricultural production |
production line assembly line line | mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it |
visible speech | spectrogram of speech, speech displayed spectrographically |
speech intelligibility | the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion) |
freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
speech organ vocal organ organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
language speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
speech perception | the auditory perception (and comprehension) of speech |
feature of speech feature | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
part of speech form class word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
visible speech | a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the th century |
production order | an order that initiates the manufacturing process |
part-of-speech tagger pos tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech |
lecture speech talking to | a lengthy rebuke, a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline, the teacher gave him a talking to |
production | a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television, have you seen the new production of Hamlet? |
theatrical production staging | the production of a drama on the stage |
actor's line speech words | words making up the dialogue of a play, the actor forgot his speech |
manner of speaking speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
rhythm speech rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements, the rhythm of Frost's poetry |
trope figure of speech figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
speech speech communication spoken communication spoken language language voice communication oral communication | (language) communication by word of mouth, his speech was garbled, he uttered harsh language, he recorded the spoken language of the streets |
speech | the exchange of spoken words, they were perfectly comfortable together without speech |
phone speech sound sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
stop consonant stop occlusive plosive consonant plosive speech sound plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
speech | something spoken, he could hear them uttering merry speeches |
accent speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression, he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent, she had a very clear speech pattern |
phatic speech phatic communication | conversational speech used to communicate sociability more than information |
second-hand speech | overheard conversation (especially overheard cellphone conversation) |
non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
speech act | the use of language to perform some act |
production | a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated, she tends to make a big production out of nothing |
address speech | the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience, he listened to an address on minor Roman poets |
keynote speech keynote address | a speech setting forth the keynote |
nominating speech nominating address nomination | an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election, the nomination was brief and to the point |
stump speech | political oratory |
speech community | people sharing a given language or dialect |
speech therapist | a therapist who treats speech defects and disorders |
speech spectrum | the average sound spectrum for the human voice |
production cost | combined costs of raw material and labor incurred in producing goods |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |