speak

Definitions

• (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• (transitive) To utter.
• (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• (informal) To understand (as though it were a language).
• (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
• (transitive) To address; to accost; to speak to.