Word Meanings - INTERSPEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A speech interposed between others. Blount.

Related words: (words related to INTERSPEECH)

• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• INTERPOSER
  One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• INTERPOSURE
  Interposition.
• INTERPOSITION
  insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• INTERPOSIT
  An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• INTERPOSE
  1. To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations. Cowper. 2. To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling. What watchful cares do interpose themselves
• INTERPOSAL
  The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• SPEECHIFIER
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
• SPEECHING
  The act of making a speech.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• INTERSPEECH
  A speech interposed between others. Blount.
• FORESPEECH
  A preface. Sherwood.
• BY-SPEECH
  An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.
• BOTHERSOME
  Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.