Definition of Speak

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Definition of Speak

Speak

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.

To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

To give sound; to sound.

To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.

To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.

To address; to accost; to speak to.

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Speak Quotations

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

Speak Translations

speak in Afrikaans is praat, gesels
speak in Danish is tale
speak in Dutch is praten, spreken
speak in Finnish is puhua
speak in French is parler
speak in German is redest, sprechen, reden, sprechen
speak in Italian is discorrere, favellare
speak in Latin is narro, loquor, for, dico
speak in Norwegian is tale, snakke
speak in Portuguese is fale, falar
speak in Spanish is hablar
speak in Swedish is tala

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