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Speaking vs Repeating - What's the difference?

speaking | repeating |

As adjectives the difference between speaking and repeating

is that speaking is used in speaking while repeating is that repeats; repetitive.

As nouns the difference between speaking and repeating

is that speaking is one's ability to communicate vocally in a given language while repeating is repetition.

As verbs the difference between speaking and repeating

is that speaking is while repeating is .

speaking

English

(wikipedia speaking)

Adjective

(-)
  • Used in speaking.
    • one's normal speaking voice
  • Expressive; eloquent.
    • The sight was more speaking than any speech could be.
  • Involving speaking.
    • It was her first speaking part: she screamed.
  • Having the ability of speech.
    • speaking parrot''; ''speaking clock
  • # (in compounds) Having competence in a language.
  • the English-speaking gentleman gave us directions; I travel in Russian-speaking countries; the French-speaking world listened in to the broadcast

    • Antonyms

    * (expressive) unspeaking * (involving speaking) nonspeaking

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language.
  • :I can read and understand mosts texts in German, but my speaking is awful.
  • The act of communicating vocally.
  • * 2011 , Jimmie W. Greene, ?Samuel D. Perry, Bridge Builder (page 50)
    • Sometimes, a brawl would erupt, as a result, but, in general, public speakings were peaceful events and essential ingredients for election to office.
  • An oral recitation of e.g. a story.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Statistics

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    repeating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That repeats; repetitive.
  • Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
  • (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring.

    • Related terms

    * repeating back * repeating circle * repeating coil

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • repetition
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings , cannot be conceiv'd