Definition of: speak

(spēk) v. spoke (Archaic spake), spo·ken (Archaic spoke), speak·ing v.i.
1. To employ the vocal organs in ordinary speech; utter words.
2. To express or convey ideas, opinions, etc., in or as in speech: to speak about a matter; Actions speak louder than words.
3. To make a speech; deliver an address.
4. To converse.
5. To make a sound; also, to bark, as a dog.
—v.t.
6. To express or make known in or as in speech.
7. To utter in speech: to speak words of love.
8. To use or be capable of using (a language) in conversation.
9. To speak to.
10. Naut. To hail and exchange communications with (a vessel) at sea.
—to speak daggers To express hatred.
—to speak for
1. To speak in behalf of; represent officially.
2. To lay claim to; bespeak; engage. [OE specan, spreccan] Synonyms: announce, articulate, converse, declaim, declare, deliver, dictate, enunciate, express, pronounce, say, talk, tell, utter. See TALK.