different between speak vs tel

English

Alternative forms

• speake (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”), alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekan? (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spi?k/
• (General American) enPR: sp?k, IPA^(key): /spik/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Verb

speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past spoke or (archaic) spake, past participle spoken or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke)

1. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.

3. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

4. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

5. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
   1. (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
6. (transitive) To utter.

7. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
   • 1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link:

     Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
8. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).

9. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
10. Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
11. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.

    • [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.

    • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody in "Poems", published 1847, page 239

      Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.

    • 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text)

      Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken.

Usage notes

• Saying that one speaks a language often means that one can or knows how to speak it ("I speak Italian"); similarly, "I don't speak Italian" usually means that one cannot, rather than that one chooses not to.

Synonyms

• articulate, talk, verbalize

Antonyms

• be silent

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• sign

Related terms

• speech

Translations

Noun

speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks)

1. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.

   Corporate speak; IT speak.

2. Speech, conversation.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

speak (plural speaks)

1. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

Anagrams

• Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, Spake, kapes, peaks, spake

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sprecan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sp?k]
• (North Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [sp?k]

Verb

speak (third-person singular present speaks, present participle speakin, past spak, past participle spoken)

1. to speak

Derived terms

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???l]

Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?l (“wire, string; thong; strand”). Cognate with Karakhanid ?????? (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai ??? (tel), Chuvash ??? (tal, “bundle”).Alternatively, related to Armenian ??? (t?el, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tell?r)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

5. fringe; bang; forelock
6. tie

Declension

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?té??]

Etymology 1

Particle

t?l

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

t?l inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ?lli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ?lli; (they are) our livers.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel), Old Armenian ??? (t?el).

Noun

tel

1. wire

2. (music) chord, string

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten.^[1] — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

Anagrams

• Let, let

French

Etymology

From Old French tel, from Latin t?lis. Compare Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Adjective

tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

Derived terms

• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel quel

Pronoun

tel ?

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te?????]

Noun

tel(??) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(??)?? • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(??)? (teru shi), past tel(??)?? (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin t?lis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

Declension

Related terms

• itel

Old Norse

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (tel) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. oil

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

t?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, ve? se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz ple?a i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel me?u crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i sve?ana kao zavetna ikona.

Declension

References

• 1957, Škalji? Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ??????, VI. ?????, ?-? (???????), ????? ?????????? ??????, ?????? ??????, ???? ???, ???. 171

Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel). See it for more.

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

4. telegram

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011