Speak: Definition and part of speech

Speak

  1. v. t. To address; to accost; to speak to.
  2. v. i. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
  3. v. i. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
  4. v. i. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
  5. v. i. To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
  6. v. i. To give sound; to sound.
  7. v. i. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
  8. v. t. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
  9. v. t. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
  10. v. t. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
  11. 1v. t. 1 To address; to accost; to speak to.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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