Speak vs Verbal - What's the difference?
speak | verbal |
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
* , chapter=13
, title= To have a conversation.
(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To utter.
* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
To produce a sound; to sound.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6
* Emerson
language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Of or relating to words.
Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
Consisting of words only.
* Mayhew
Expressly spoken rather than written.
(grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
(grammar) Used to form a verb.
Capable of speech.
* 2005 , Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55)
Word for word; literal; verbatim.
(obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.
(grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
(transitive, British, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
* 1982 , John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study , ISBN 9024725526, BRILL, page 128:
* 2001 , Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police , ISBN 1864487194, Allen & Unwin, page 116:
* 2004 , Jeremy Gans & Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence , ISBN 1876905123, Routledge Cavendish, page 504:
As verbs the difference between speak and verbal
is that speak is to communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud while verbal is to induce into fabricating a confession.As nouns the difference between speak and verbal
is that speak is language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group while verbal is a verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.As an adjective verbal is
of or relating to words.speak
English
(wikipedia speak)Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
- 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.
- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
- Make all our trumpets speak .
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
Synonyms
* articulate, talk, verbalizeDerived 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 forNoun
(-)- Corporate speak; IT speak
Derived terms
* artspeak * cyberspeak * doublespeak * lawyerspeak * leetspeak * medspeak * Newspeak * weather speakStatistics
*verbal
English
Adjective
(-)- We subjoin an engraving which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.
- a verbal''' contract; '''verbal testimony
- How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?
- a verbal translation
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (of or relating to words) wordishAntonyms
* (consisting of words only) non-verbal, substantive * (expressly spoken or written) implied * (expressly stated) unsaid * (capable of speech) preverbalDerived terms
* verbal complement * verbal diarrhoea * verbal noun * verbal regency * verbal warningNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* non-finite verbVerb
- "The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained."
- "Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing."
- "Moreover, given the risk of verballing , it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable."
