| election | the act of selecting someone or something, the exercise of deliberate choice, her election of medicine as a profession |
| election | a vote to select the winner of a position or political office, the results of the election will be announced tonight |
| general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
primary
primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
by-election
bye-election | a special election between regular elections |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
| election fraud | misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election |
| 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 |
| right of election | in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute |
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 |
| election | the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) |
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 |
| writ of election | a writ ordering the holding of an election |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |
voting precinct
election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
| speech therapist | a therapist who treats speech defects and disorders |
| speech spectrum | the average sound spectrum for the human voice |
| election | the status or fact of being elected, they celebrated his election |
speech disorder
speech defect
defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |
polling day
election day | the day appointed for an election, in the United States it is the st Tuesday after the st Monday in November |
| speech day | an annual day in the schools when speeches are made and prizes are distributed |
lipread
lip-read
speech-read | interpret by lipreading, of deaf people |