manner+of+speaking
81delivery — n. act of delivering bringing 1) to make a delivery 2) to accept, take delivery 3) an emergency delivery; (an) overnight; prompt delivery (we guarantee prompt delivery) 4) general (AE); recorded (BE); rural free (AE); special delivery 5) a… …
82tone — n. style, trend 1) to set the tone sound 2) dulcet, sweet; harsh; strident tone(s) manner of speaking that reveals the speaker s feelings 3) an abusive; angry; apologetic; arrogant; businesslike; condescending, patronizing; decisive; emphatic;… …
83tongue — n. language 1) one s mother, native tongue organ of speech speech 2) to use one s tongue ( to speak ) 3) to hold one s tongue ( to be silent ) 4) to find one s tongue ( to begin to speak ) 5) to stick out one s tongue (the child stuck out its… …
84as it were — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. so to speak, figuratively speaking, in a way, as it seems, as it would seem, in some sort, in a manner, so to say, in a manner of speaking, kind of*, sort of* …
85language — n 1. speech, tongue, dialect, parlance, idiolect; vernacular, common speech, vulgate, vulgar tongue; mother tongue, native tongue, parent language, linguistic stock; slang, idiom, vulgarism, colloquialism, vernacularism, archaism; patois, pidgin …
86diction — [dik′shən] n. [L dictio, a speaking (in LL, word) < pp. of dicere, to say, orig., point out in words < IE base * deik , to point out > Gr deiknynai, to prove, Ger zeigen, to show, OE teon, to accuse, tæcan, TEACH] 1. manner of expression …
87as it were — adverb as if it were really so (Freq. 4) she lives here, as it were • Syn: ↑so to speak * * * SO TO SPEAK, in a manner of speaking, to some extent, so to say; informal sort of. → as * * * phrasal …
88modulation — noun 1. a musical passage moving from one key to another (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑transition • Derivationally related forms: ↑modulate • Hypernyms: ↑passage, ↑musical passage 2 …
89paralinguistic communication — noun the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings • Syn: ↑paralanguage • Hypernyms: ↑communication • Part Meronyms: ↑manner of speaking, ↑speech, ↑delivery …
90speak — speakable, adj. speakableness, n. speakably, adv. /speek/, v., spoke or (Archaic) spake; spoken or (Archaic) spoke; speaking. v.i. 1. to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too …
