Adjustment vs Speech - What's the difference?
adjustment | speech |
a small change; a minor correction; a modification
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
(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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* Bible, (w) iii. 6
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
As nouns the difference between adjustment and speech
is that adjustment is a small change; a minor correction; a modification while speech is spoke (part of a wheel).adjustment
English
Noun
(en noun)- The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
- When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
Synonyms
* change * correction * modificationSee also
* (wikipedia)speech
English
Noun
(wikipedia speech)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.