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Definition of Speaking
Speaking

of Speak

Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.

Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.

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Speaking Quotations

States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.
Edgar Wilson Nye

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaking Translations

speaking in German is redend, sprechend
speaking in Italian is parla
speaking in Swedish is talande


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