| record track record | the sum of recognized accomplishments, the lawyer has a good record, the track record shows that he will be a good president |
| record | an extreme attainment, the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport), he tied the Olympic record, coffee production last year broke all previous records, Chicago set the homicide record |
| track record | the fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack, the track record for the mile and a half at Belmont is minutes seconds held by Secretariat since |
| world record | the best record in the whole world |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
phonograph album
record album | an album for holding phonograph records |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
record changer
autohanger
changer | an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention |
| record jacket | the jacket for a phonograph record |
record player
phonograph | machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically |
record sleeve
record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
| 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 |
criminal record
record | a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted, he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court, the prostitute had a record a mile long |
| visible speech | a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the th century |
written record
written account | a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events |
| won-lost record | (sports) a record of win versus losses |
| Congressional Record | a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress |
medical history
medical record
anamnesis | the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient |
historical document
historical paper
historical record | writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.) |
annals
chronological record | a chronological account of events in successive years |
part-of-speech tagger
pos tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech |
album
record album | one or more recordings issued together, originally released on -inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc |
record record book
book | a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone, Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record', his name is in all the record books |
| record | anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events, the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques |
| lecture speech talking to | a lengthy rebuke, a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline, the teacher gave him a talking to |
graph
graphical record | a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes |
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 |
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 |