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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
▸ verb:  (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
▸ verb:  (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
▸ verb:  (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To utter.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
▸ verb:  (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
▸ verb:  Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
▸ noun:  (countable) Speech, conversation.
▸ noun:  (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal) Short for speaker point. [Each of the points awarded to an individual speaker in a formal debate for speaking and debating well.]

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