practice
pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior, it is their practice to give annual raises, they changed their dietary pattern |
| practice praxis | translating an idea into action, a hard theory to put into practice, differences between theory and praxis of communism |
exhibition game
practice game | a game whose outcome is not recorded in the season's standing |
law
practice of law | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system, he studied law at Yale |
medicine
practice of medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries, he studied medicine at Harvard |
| practice | the exercise of a profession, the practice of the law, I took over his practice when he retired |
| dental practice | the practice of dentistry |
| law practice | the practice of law |
| medical practice | the practice of medicine |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
| private practice | the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee, he teaches at the medical school but his fortune came from private practice, lawyers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
sexual activity
sexual practice
sex
sex activity | activities associated with sexual intercourse, they had sex in the back seat |
exercise practice drill
practice session
recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions, practice makes perfect |
skull session
skull practice | teaching strategy to an athletic team |
| target practice | practice in shooting at targets |
| practice range | a place for practicing golf shots |
| 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 |
| practice | knowledge of how something is usually done, it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner |
| 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 |
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 |