phrase | dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence |
speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
cenotaph empty tomb | a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered |
empty | a container that has been emptied, return all empties to the store |
flowerbed flower bed bed of flowers | a bed in which flowers are growing |
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 |
syntax sentence structure phrase structure | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
phrase | an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence |
noun phrase nominal phrase nominal | a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb |
predicate verb phrase | one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the predicate contains the verb and its complements |
prepositional phrase | a phrase beginning with a preposition |
pronominal phrase pronominal | a phrase that functions as a pronoun |
part of speech form class word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
phrase book | a book containing common expressions in a foreign language along with their translations |
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 |
palaver hot air empty words empty talk rhetoric | loud and confused and empty talk, mere rhetoric |
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 |
tune melody air strain melodic line line melodic phrase | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence, she was humming an air from Beethoven |
phrase musical phrase | a short musical passage |
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 |
turn of phrase turn of expression | a distinctive spoken or written expression, John's succinct turn of phrase persuaded her that it would not be a good idea |
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) |
catchphrase catch phrase | a phrase that has become a catchword |
platitude cliche banality commonplace bromide | a trite or obvious remark |
idiom idiomatic expression phrasal idiom set phrase phrase r | an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up |
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 |