(in speech)
81speech reception threshold — speech recognition threshold (SRT) the minimum intensity in decibels at which a patient can understand 50 per cent of spoken words; used in tests of speech audiometry …
82speech impediment — speech im.pediment n a physical or nervous problem that affects your speech …
83speech synthesizer — speech .synthesizer n a computer system that produces sounds like human speech …
84speech therapy — speech .therapy n [U] treatment that helps people who have difficulty in speaking properly >speech therapist n …
85Speech — [spi:tʃ] der; es, Plur. e u. es [...tʃis] <aus gleichbed. engl. speech> (selten) Rede, Ansprache …
86speech — (n.) O.E. spæc act of speaking, manner of speaking, formal utterance, variant of spræc, related to sprecan, specan to speak (see SPEAK (Cf. speak)), from P.Gmc. *sprækijo (Cf. Ger. Sprache speech ). The spr forms were extinct in English by 1200.… …
87speech day — speech days N VAR In some British schools, speech day is a day, usually at the end of the school year, when prizes are presented to pupils and speeches are made by guest speakers and the head teacher. [BRIT] …
88speech sound — speech′ sound n. phn any of the minimal identifiable discrete segments of sound occurring in speech • Etymology: 1865–70 …
89speech — [n1] talk accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discussion, doublespeak*, double talk*, elocution, enunciation, expressing, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue …
90speech clinic — n. a clinic for treating speech disorders …
