different between speaker vs abscission

English

Etymology

From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

speaker (plural speakers)

1. One who speaks.
   • 1989, R. Norman Whybray, Ecclesiastes, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 15:

     This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ...

2. Loudspeaker.

3. Speakerphone.
4. (politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
5. One who makes a speech to an audience.

6. (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
8. (especially in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
   • 2002, Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton & Company (?ISBN), page 242:

     The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ...

   2. (poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.

9. (music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.

Synonyms

• talker

Translations

Further reading

• Link to web page on Speaker of the House of Commons (3)

Anagrams

• Preseka, parkees, peakers, re-speak, respake, respeak

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English speaker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spik?/
• Hyphenation: spea?ker

Noun

speaker

1. (colloquial) loudspeaker

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English speaker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi.kœ?/

Noun

speaker m (plural speakers, feminine speakerine)

1. announcer
2. speaker (in parliament)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English speaker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi.ker/, /?spi.kar/

Noun

speaker m (invariable)

1. announcer, commentator (radio, TV)
2. speaker (parliamentary)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spike?/, [?spi.ke?]

• IPA^(key): /es?pike?/, [es?pi.ke?]

Noun

speaker m or f (plural speakers or speaker)

1. speaker (in parliament)

English

Etymology

From Latin abscissi?, from abscind? (“I cut, I tear”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?.?n?/, /æb?s?.?n?/

Noun

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

Related terms

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

Translations

Anagrams

• abscisions

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sj??/

Noun

abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

Further reading

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