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Speakout vs Declare - What's the difference?

speakout | declare |

As a noun speakout

is a public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, eg rape.

As a verb declare is

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speakout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.
  • * 2002 , The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (ISBN 0847697711):
  • What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout .
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  • declare

    English

    Verb

    (declar)
  • (obsolete) To make clear, explain, interpret.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
  • Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
  • * Boyle
  • To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies are exactly smooth.
  • To make a declaration.
  • To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
  • He declared him innocent.
  • (cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
  • To announce something formally or officially.
  • declare bankruptcy
    declare victory
    (cricket) declare (an innings) closed
  • To affirm or state something emphatically.
  • To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
  • * 1984 , Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, " Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time , 2 April:
  • The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
  • To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
  • (computing) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.
  • The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

    Derived terms

    * declarant * declaration * declarative * declaratory * declarer * declare war

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