{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "spik" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/speak.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/speak.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/speak.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/speak.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan (\"to speak\" \"to crackle, prattle\") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof.\n\n\nCognates:\n\nCognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203:And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.\nI was so surprised I couldn't speak.\nYou're speaking too fast." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.\nIt's been ages since we've spoken." }, { "mean": "(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.\nHe spoke of it in his diary.\nSpeak to me only with your eyes.\nActions speak louder than words." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.\nThis evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage." }, { "mean": "(transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.\nHe speaks Mandarin fluently.", "submean": [ "(by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.\n1998, Nigel G Fielding, Raymond M Lee, Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research‎, page 4:Even those who did 'speak computer' did so sometimes in a less than fluent way which required a jump to be made from a press-the-right-button stage to having the confidence to experiment." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To utter.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:5:And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.\nI was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.\n1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link:\nTheir behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.\n1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “A Bosom Friend.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 56:There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits." }, { "mean": "(informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).\nSorry, I don't speak idiot.\nSo you can program in C. But do you speak C++?" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.\nc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 150:Make all our trumpets speak." }, { "mean": "Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.\n1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 220:Miles tremblingly confessed that it had, but to no purpose; a parrot being able to speak better in three weeks than a brazen head." }, { "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 13:6: thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.\n1847, R W Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 239:Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.\n1854 August 9, Henry D Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:To oversee all the details yourself in person; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and underwriter; to buy and sell and keep the accounts; to read every letter received, and write or read every letter sent; to superintend the discharge of imports night and day; to be upon many parts of the coast almost at the same time—often the richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore;—to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; \n2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text)\nSpoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.\nCorporate speak; IT speak." }, { "mean": "Speech, conversation." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }