Acoustic vs Speech - What's the difference?
acoustic | speech |
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.
(music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification, as an acoustic guitar or acoustic piano.
(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
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A style of speaking.
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Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
As nouns the difference between acoustic and speech
is that acoustic is a medicine or other agent to assist hearing while speech is the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.As an adjective acoustic
is pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.acoustic
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Alternative forms
* acoustick (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* acousticallyDerived terms
* acoustics: the science of sound * acoustic duct: the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. * acoustic guitar * acoustic telegraph: a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone, notably used on ships * acoustic vessels: brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.speech
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- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.