to close a speech
11close — I. verb (closed; closing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French clos , stem of clore, from Latin claudere to shut, close; perhaps akin to Greek kleiein to close more at clavicle Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to move so as to bar …
12speech day — noun an annual day in the schools when speeches are made and prizes are distributed • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
13speech-aid prosthesis — a device designed to close a cleft of the hard or soft palate and to substitute for structures used for normal speech. Called also artificial palate, obturator, and prosthetic speech aid …
14Close vowel — Vowel Vow el, n. [F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L. vocalis (sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox, vocis, a voice, sound. See {Vocal}.] (Phon.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage,… …
15close juncture — “ noun or close internal juncture : a juncture between two consecutive sounds in speech of the kind found in a simplex word (as between t and r in the pronunciation of trait or nitrate or between ī and n in the pronunciation of mine or minus… …
16close-captioning — noun A technology that adds text captions to a video that describes speech and sound. Usually used to assist the hearing impaired …
17Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind — Communication with an alien, either through speech, psychic abilities or channeling …
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18Checkers speech — Senator Richard Nixon delivers the Checkers speech Date September 23, 1952 Time 6:30 p.m. Location Los Angeles, California …
19Free Speech Movement — The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964 1965 school year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, David Goines, Brian Turner,… …
20Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech in Balatonőszöd in May 2006 — Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány gave a May 2006 closed meeting speech in Balatonőszöd to the MSZP (Hungarian Socialist Party) members of the National Assembly of Hungary. This meeting was supposed to be confidential but the Prime… …
