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Speak meaning

  1. To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  2. To have a conversation.
  3. To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

Synonyms of Speak

talk communicate intercommunicate address speak for speak up mouth off verbalise verbalize mouth utter sound

Speak vertaling naar Nederlands

spreken

Using Speak

  • The main meaning on this page is: To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. | To have a conversation. | To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • Useful related words include: talk, communicate, intercommunicate, address.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: spreken.
  • In the example corpus, speak often appears in combinations such as: to speak, speak to, speak for.

Example sentences (20)

He encourages children to read and speak correctly both our lingua franca and vernacular unlike what you see today, most Igbo children and adults can neither read or speak English language nor speak Igbo language without the combination of both.

I couldn't speak for about three days and then I could speak for two minutes and then I could speak for five minutes.

I think that’s how Sidney Lumet, how Brian De Palma and Ingmar Bergman approached movies: I think it’s a lot of trust in the performances and letting the performances speak to you and let the film speak to you; don’t speak to the film.

A shrinking percentage of the population, mainly people born before the 1950s, cannot speak Mandarin at all, or learned to speak Mandarin later in life, though some of these speak Japanese fluently.

It is man’s superiority over the beasts to be able to speak; but in relation to God it can easily become the ruin of man who is able to speak that he is too willing to speak.

He is a thinker who lets others speak but when he does speak you better sit up and take notice because he’ll have something important to say.

He then arranged to speak to his solicitor, who later informed police “he no longer wanted to speak to the police any further”.

If this is occurring, speak to your partner about ways they can help (like by using more lubricant or engaging in more foreplay), or speak to your doctor if your partner and you cannot fix the issue.

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In Tel Aviv, retired Israeli ambassadors have set up their own command center to “speak for and on behalf of” the hostages, who cannot speak for themselves.

In the English dub, Okabe decides to speak in jive to sound relatable to the merchant, but is embarrassed to find the man doesn’t speak jive and instead brushes him off.

Not to speak is to speak.

The format with the help of interpreters for each session allowed for participants to speak in their native languages with Shauna Hartigan from Galway choosing to speak in Irish at times.

These are people who could fluently speak the language at one point in their life and possibly still understand it but could no longer speak it.

T.S. Shyam Kumar will speak on Myth and Politics, while A. Biju Kumar will speak on Climate change, Development and Carbon Neutral Society and Mohan Roy on Brain, Belief and Science.

We’re just kind of trying to keep the community together and not let anyone feel left out and giving the community a voice and letting them speak to the people they need to speak to or bring up these things that are not being addressed.

When someone wishes to speak in the Parliament they have to signal to the Speaker who acknowledges them and tells them when to speak.

While its common for members of the British Royal family to make public appearances its unusual for them to speak at events where only paid attendees can hear thm speak.

And every time you call, it’s a three-hour wait on the phone to speak with someone and then when you speak with them, they say we’ll look into this, but it’s never been corrected,” she added.

As a country with multiple languages and diverse backgrounds, let those who speak Filipino learn in Filipino, those who speak English learn in English—but let us not suppress others by imposing that they learn only using both at such a young age.

By allowing Trump to speak, Engoron figured there would be one less bogus motion to be made about how the former president had been denied his right to speak on his own behalf.

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Common combinations with speak

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • to speak 113×
  • speak to 37×
  • speak for 17×
  • and speak 15×
  • speak the 15×
  • speak in 14×
  • we speak 14×
  • speak about 14×
  • speak out 14×
  • speak of 14×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "speak" in a sentence?
An example: "He encourages children to read and speak correctly both our lingua franca and vernacular unlike what you see today, most Igbo children and adults can neither read or speak English language nor speak Igbo language without the combination of both." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "speak" from authentic English texts.
What does "speak" mean?
Speak means: To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
What are synonyms of "speak"?
Common synonyms of "speak" include: talk, communicate, intercommunicate, address, speak for, speak up, mouth off, verbalise. Plus 4 more synonyms.
What is "speak" in Dutch?
"speak" translates to Dutch as: spreken.
How many example sentences with "speak" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "speak", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.