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Speech vs Egressive - What's the difference?

speech | egressive |

As nouns the difference between speech and egressive

is that speech is spoke (part of a wheel) while egressive is (phonetics) a speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

As an adjective egressive is

going or directed outward.

speech

English

Noun

(wikipedia speech)
  • (label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= 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.}}
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  • (label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
    • The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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  • A style of speaking.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • A dialect or language.
  • * Bible, (w) iii. 6
    • people of a strange speech
  • Talk; mention; rumour.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

    Derived terms

    * after-dinner speech * byspeech * figure of speech * pressure of speech * pressured speech * speech recognition * speechwriter

    Related terms

    * speak

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    egressive

    English

    (wikipedia egressive)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Going or directed outward.
  • (phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
  • (geology) descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
    • This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake .

    Antonyms

    * ingressive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

    • Antonyms

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