| speaking trumpet | a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice, formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person |
| speaking tube | a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another |
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 |
| speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
public speaking
speechmaking
speaking
oral presentation | delivering an address to a public audience, people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking |
| speaking(a) | capable of or involving speech or speaking, human beings--the speaking animals, a speaking part in the play |
| Bantu-speaking | able to communicate in Bantu |
| English-speaking | able to communicate in English |
| Finno-Ugric-speaking | able to communicate in a Finno-Ugric language |
| Flemish-speaking | able to communicate in Flemish |
| French-speaking | able to communicate in French |
| Gaelic-speaking | able to communicate in Gaelic |
| German-speaking | able to communicate in German |
| Icelandic-speaking | able to communicate in Icelandic |
| Italian-speaking | able to communicate in Italian |
| Japanese-speaking | able to communicate in Japanese |
| Kannada-speaking | able to communicate in Kannada |
| Livonian-speaking | able to communicate in Livonian |
| Oscan-speaking | able to communicate in Oscan |
| Russian-speaking | able to communicate in Russian |
| Samoyedic-speaking | able to communicate in Samoyedic |
| Semitic-speaking | able to communicate in a Semitic language |
| Siouan-speaking | able to communicate in a Siouan language |
| Spanish-speaking | able to communicate in Spanish |
| Turkic-speaking | able to communicate in Turkic |
| Bantu-speaking | of or relating to people who speak Bantu, the Bantu-speaking people of Africa |
strictly
purely | restricted to something, we talked strictly business |
broadly
loosely broadly speaking
generally | without regard to specific details or exceptions, he interprets the law broadly |
rigorously
strictly | in a rigorous manner, he had been trained rigorously by the monks |
properly speaking
strictly speaking
to be precise | in actual fact, properly speaking, they are not husband and wife |
| strictly stringently | in a stringent manner, the laws are stringently enforced, stringently controlled |