speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
a mischief mischief-making mischievousness deviltry devilry devilment rascality roguery roguishness shenanigan ddd | reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others |
sexual love lovemaking making love love love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
devising fashioning making | the act that results in something coming to be, the devising of plans, the fashioning of pots and pans, the making of measurements, it was already in the making |
moviemaking movie making film making | the production of movies |
winemaking wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
slave-making ant slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
visible speech | spectrogram of speech, speech displayed spectrographically |
qualification making | an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, her qualifications for the job are excellent, one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree, she has the makings of fine musician |
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 |
decision making deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
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 |
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 |
informing making known | a speech act that conveys information |
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 |
leak wetting making water passing water | a euphemism for urination, he had to take a leak |
photomechanics photoplate making | the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods, photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing |
speech disorder speech defect defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |
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 |