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speaker

[spee-ker]

noun

a person who speaks.

a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.

(usually initial capital letter) the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, the British House of Commons, or other such legislative assembly.

Also called loudspeaker. an electroacoustic device, often housed in a cabinet, that is connected as a component in an audio system, its function being to make speech or music audible.

a book of selections for practice in declamation.

Idiom

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see speak, -er¹

Related forms

speak·er·ship, noun

non·speak·er, noun

Example Sentences

The speaker who took his thesis from the bones of the human body.

Nearby, in the shade of a neem tree, protesters with banners and flags listen as a speaker inveighs against corruption.

Beyond his academic work, he is a writer and keynote speaker.

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The speaker who took his thesis from the bones of the human body.

Nearby, in the shade of a neem tree, protesters with banners and flags listen as a speaker inveighs against corruption.

Beyond his academic work, he is a writer and keynote speaker.

What happens in the brain when you hear an accent--and why you are less likely to trust the speaker.

Everything about him was against his being a powerful speaker.

It is tinnier-sounding than the surprisingly good speaker on the first iPad.

One speaker was slightly less hopeful about collaborative work across the four fields.

Ask your students if they perceive any benefits to being a multilingual speaker.

Staticky pops coming from a speaker on a back wall are the amplified sound of one of her neurons firing.

She wanted the dignity of her presence to be remembered as a speaker and an orator.

The world's biggest iPod speaker is best described in numbers.

Blumenstyk is a frequent speaker at higher-education industry conferences.

When the last speaker of a language dies, the world loses the knowledge that was.

Study subjects with a preference for one candidate reported negative reactions while watching the speaker they opposed.

His wit and spirit motivated me to a degree of higher aspiration than any other speaker has done in my life time.

You'd think that making a speaker from hard, brittle porcelain would result in an equally splintered, frangible sound.

Additionally, after that speaker series is over, contact the people who suggested the speakers and thank them for their help.

Ask your students if there are any benefits to being a multilingual speaker.

Then he aimed a speaker at a group of moths and broadcast sounds in a wide range of frequencies.

Played back via a speaker using a similar needle unit, the device could retransmit the sounds.

His minimalist speaker design consists four paper cups, a couple of.

Some older students worry that the seminar, and a related speaker series, establishes.

In multiple trials, she hid a wireless speaker in a fake tree trunk near each group of elephants, then drove away.

But it does go towards my claim that the speaker had no idea what they were talking about.

In fact, you can tune each speaker to send sound to just.

The student clicks on the little speaker icon and listens to a recording.

Languages inter-individual function begs space for messages where the speaker leaves ample areas of meaning undefined.

The instant a speaker commences to talk his way through bulleted slides, my eyelids feel the tug of gravity.

It's not a huge difference, but it's enough to win dirty looks from the next speaker and the moderator.

Sometimes, that will adjust the speaker volume upwards.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Tris(tram E.), 1888–1958, U.S. baseball player.

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World English Dictionary

speaker (ˈspiːkə)

—n
1.	a person who speaks, esp at a formal occasion
2.	See loudspeaker

'speakership

—n

Speaker (ˈspiːkə)

—n
	the presiding officer in any of numerous legislative bodies, including the House of Commons in Britain and Canada and the House of Representatives in the US, Australia, and New Zealand

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Word Origin & History

speaker

c.1300, "one who speaks," agent noun from speak (q.v.). First applied to "person who presides over an assembly" c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. (1376). In ref to the Eng. Parliament, Sir Thomas de Hungerford apparently was the first.

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Computing Dictionary

speaker definition

1. loudspeaker.
2. The person who is (assumed to be) talking.
(1996-12-01)

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