Speak vs Accost - What's the difference?
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In lang=en terms the difference between speak and accost is that speak is to produce a sound; to sound while accost is to speak to first; to address; to greet. As verbs the difference between speak and accost is that speak is to communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud while accost is to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. As nouns the difference between speak and accost is that speak is language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group or speak can be (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy while accost is (rare) address; greeting.
speak Verb
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
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To have a conversation.
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(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
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To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
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To be able to communicate in a language.
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To utter.
* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 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.
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To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
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To produce a sound; to sound.
* Shakespeare
- Make all our trumpets speak .
(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
* Emerson
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
Synonyms
* articulate, talk, verbalize
Derived terms
* public speaking
* speakable
* speaker
* speakeasy
* re-speak
* unspeakable
phrasal verbs
* speak down
* speak for
* speak out
* speak to
* speak up
idioms
* actions speak louder than words
* on speaking terms
* so to speak
* speak for oneself
* speak highly of
* speak ill of
* speak in tongues
* speak of the devil
* speak one's mind
* speak softly and carry a big stick
* speak someone's language
* speak volumes
* speak with one voice
* spoken for
Related terms
* speech
Noun
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language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
- Corporate speak; IT speak
Derived terms
* artspeak
* cyberspeak
* doublespeak
* lawyerspeak
* leetspeak
* medspeak
* Newspeak
* weather speak
Noun
( en noun)
(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
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accost English
Verb
( en verb)
To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
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(obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
* So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
(obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
- (Shakespeare)
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
* Milton
- Him, Satan thus accosts .
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
- She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
(obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
* Spenser
- the shores which to the sea accost
* Fuller
- so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea
To solicit sexually.
Derived terms
* accostment
Noun
( en noun)
(rare) Address; greeting.
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