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Megaphone vs Speaker - What's the difference?

megaphone | speaker |

As nouns the difference between megaphone and speaker

is that megaphone is a portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction while speaker is one who speaks.

As a verb megaphone

is to use a megaphone.

megaphone

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
    • Synonyms
    * speaking trumpet
    Hypernyms
    * loudhailer, blowhorn
    Hyponyms
    * bullhorn, the modern electronic amplification version
    Derived terms
    * megaphonic * megaphonist

    Verb

    (megaphon)
  • (intransitive) To use a megaphone.

    • Etymology 2

    Named for the root Aniba megaphylla + .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) a cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla .

    • speaker

    English

    (wikipedia speaker)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who speaks.
    • A native English speaker .
  • Loudspeaker.
  • (politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • One who makes a speech to an audience.
    • The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
  • (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
  • (linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether actually spoken or not.

    • External links

    * Link to web page on Speaker of the House of Commons (3)

    Anagrams

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