Definition of Speaking

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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. Related Definitions: Animal, As, Be, Capable, Conveying, For, Hence, Is, Lifelike, Likeness, Man, Of, Seeming, Speak, Speaking, Speech, To, Tube, Used, Uttering

Speaking Quotations

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

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil Gibran

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

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

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

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
Bob Dylan

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

Speaking Translations

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

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