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Definition: Speaker |
SpeakerNoun1. Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims". 2. Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance. 3. The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "speaker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | Speaker 1. |
General | Someone who delivers a speech or talks at a conference. The term " lecturer" is restricted to academic contexts ; one who reads or delivers a discourse before an audience, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | House of Commons. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The presiding officer of the Assembly elected by the membership of the Assembly at the beginning of the two-year session. This is the highest ranking member of the Assembly. (references) | |
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A speaker is an electronic device used to transform varying electric current into audible sound. It usually consists of a speaker cone, most often made of plastic or cardboard, which is moved by magnetic forces induced by the electromagnet to which the input signal is directed.
An active speaker contains a built-in amplifier to process low voltage sound signals, while a passive speaker requires an external amplifier.
The most important properties of a speaker are its impedance (expressed in ohms), power handling capability (in watts), and its frequency output range, which determines the range of sounds the speaker is able to produce.
see loudspeaker
The "Speaker" (more formally, Speaker of the House) is the presiding officer in many legislative bodies, including the United States House of Representatives and the House of Commons in Westminster System parliaments. See Speaker of the House of Commons.
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In the British House of Commons the Speaker of the House of Commons controls the day to day running of the house. It is he (or she) that decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the house.The speaker is elected by MPs from amongst their own ranks. There are two methods for electing a speaker. One is used after a General election when the previous speaker indicates that he or she wishes to continue in office. The other procedure is used when a speaker does not choose to return to office, dies, or resigns.
If a new speaker is to be elected, the Father of the House becomes the presiding officer. Candidates must be nominated by at least twelve members; at least three of these members must not share a party with the candidate being proposed. If there is only one candidate, then the House votes on a motion that the candidate be elected. If there are multiple candidates, the House votes by secret ballot. In the event that no candidate receives a majority, the House votes again, but the candidate who received the fewest votes and also any candidate who received less than five percent of the votes are immediately excluded. Even if the ballot yields a definitive result, the speaker is officially elected only when the House formally approves a motion to elect that candidate.
If a speaker seeks re-election after a General election, and this is confirmed by the presiding officer (again the Father of the House), then the House votes on a motion that the speaker be re-elected. If the motion fails, then the procedure of nominated candidates and secret ballots will be used.
The speaker, upon election should break ties with his or her former party as it is essential that the speaker is seen as completely impartial. In fact even after they leave office they will take no part in normal political life and if elevated to the House of Lords will normally sit as a crossbencher
The Speaker wears a certain amount of formal wear however not as much as before 1992, when the first female Speaker (Betty Boothroyd) was elected who rejected the old wig, breeches and buckles formerly associated with the role.
Upon Michael Martin's election, he decided not to return to the old ceremonial wear feeling that it was no longer appropriate in light of the moves to reform the procedure of Parliament.
The Speaker is assisted by three deputies. The most senior deputy has the title of "Chairman of Ways and Means." The other two deputies are the First Deputy and Second Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means. The Speaker does not preside during all House sessions; deputies take the chair for a very high proportion of the time.
Speakers of the House from 1701
- 1701 - 1705 Robert Harley
- 1705 - 1708 John Smith
- 1708 - 1710 Sir Richard Onslow
- 1710 - 1713 William Bromley
- 1714 - 1715 Sir Thomas Hanmer
- 1715 - 1727 Sir Samuel Crompton
- 1728 - 1761 Arthur Onslow
- 1761 - 1770 Sir John Cust
- 1770 - 1780 Sir Fletcher Norton
- 1780 - 1789 Charles Wolfran Cornwall
- 1789 William Wyndham Grenville
- 1789 - 1801 Henry Addington
- 1801 - 1802 Sir John Mitford
- 1802 - 1817 Charles Abbot
- 1817 - 1834 Charles Manners-Sutton
- 1835 - 1839 James Abercromby
- 1839 - 1857 Charles Shaw-Lefevre
- 1857 - 1872 John Evelyn Denison
- 1872 - 1884 Henry Brand
- 1886 - 1895 Arthur Wellesley Peel
- 1895 - 1905 William Court Gully
- 1905 - 1921 James William Lowther
- 1921 - 1928 John Henry Whitley
- 1928 - 1943 Edward Fitzroy
- 1943 - 1951 Clifton Brown
- 1951 - 1959 William Morrison (later Viscount Dunrossil)
- 1959 - 1965 Sir Harry Hylton-Foster
- 1965 - 1971 Dr. Horace King
- 1971 - 1976 Selwyn Lloyd
- 1976 - 1983 George Thomas
- 1983 - 1992 Bernard Weatherill
- 1992 - 2000 Betty Boothroyd
- 2000 - present Michael Martin
External Links
- British Parliament Factsheet M2 about the Speaker (pdf document)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Speaker of the British House of Commons."
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In Canada the Speaker of the House of Commons is elected by fellow MPs and performs the same duties as in other nations (see Speaker of the House of Commons). Traditionally in Canada the speaker was appointed by the Prime Minister, but in 1986 this was changed and they are now selected by secret ballot. The speaker remains a sitting MP, but only votes on matters in the case of a tie. In Canada it is also the speaker's responsibility to manage the House of Commons and supervise its staff. It is also the Speaker's duty to act as a liason with the Senate and the Crown. The Speaker of the House of Commons has an official residence just outside Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river from Ottawa. The current speaker is Ontario Liberal MP Peter Milliken.All of Canada's province's also have a Speaker of the House of Commons with much the same roles.
List of Federal Speakers
- James Cockburn June 11, 1867 - March 5, 1874 Conservative
- Timothy Warren Anglin March 26, 1874 - February 12, 1879 Liberal
- Joseph Godéric Blanchet February 13, 1879 - February 7, 1883 Liberal-Conservative
- George Airey Kirkpatrick, February 8, 1883 - July 12, 1887 Conservative
- Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet July 13, 1887 - July 28, 1891 Conservative
- Peter White July 29, 1891 - August 18, 1896 Conservative
- James David Edgar August 19, 1896 - July 31, 1899 Liberal
- Thomas Bain August 1, 1899 - February 5, 1901 Liberal
- Louis Philippe Brodeur February 6, 1901 - January 18, 1904 Liberal
- Napoléon Antoine Belcourte March 10, 1904 - January 10, 1905 Liberal
- Robert Franklin Sutherland January 11, 1905 - January 19, 1909 Liberal
- Charles Marcil January 20, 1909 - November 14, 1911 Liberal
- Thomas Simpson Sproule November 15, 1911 - December 2, 1915
- Albert Sévigny January 12, 1916 - January 7, 1917 Conservative
- Edgar Nelson Rhodes January 18, 1917 - March 5, 1922 Conservative
- Rodolphe Lemieux March 8, 1922 - June 2, 1930 Liberal
- George Black September 8, 1930 - January 16, 1935 Conservative
- James Langstaff Bowman January 17, 1935 - February 5, 1936 Conservative
- Pierre-François Casgrain February 6, 1936 - May 10, 1945 Liberal
- James Allison Glen May 16, 1940 - September 5, 1945 Liberal
- Gaspard Fauteux September 6, 1945 - September 14, 1949 Liberal
- William Ross Macdonald September 15, 1949 - June 11, 1953 Liberal
- Louis-René Beaudoin November 12, 1953 - October 13, 1957 Liberal
- Roland Michener October 14, 1957 - September 26, 1962 Progressive Conservative
- Marcel Lambert September 27, 1962 - May 15, 1963 Progressive Conservative
- Alan MacNaughton May 16, 1963 - January 17, 1966 Liberal
- Lucien Lamoureux January 18, 1966 - September 29, 1974 Liberal
- James Alexander Jerome September 30, 1974 - December 14, 1979 Liberal
- Jeanne Sauvé April 14, 1980 - January 15, 1985 Liberal
- Cyril Lloyd Francis January 16, 1984 - November 4, 1984 Liberal
- John William Bosley November 5, 1984 - September 29, 1986 Progressive Conservative
- John Allen, Fraser September 30, 1986 - January 16, 1994 Progressive Conservative
- Gilbert Parent January 17, 1994 - January 28, 2001 Liberal
- Peter Milliken January 29, 2001 - present Liberal
External Link
- Parliamentary Library of Canada - contains biograhpies of all of Canada's speakers and information on the historical developmetn and curretn role of the position.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons."
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In the Westminster System the Speaker of the House of Commons controls the day to day running of the house. The speaker decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the house. This position exists in nations such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.The speaker is elected from amongst the members of the commons by the members, and no whips are allowed in the selection. Nonetheless, a speaker from the ruling party is usually chosen.
See:
- Speaker of the British House of Commons
- Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
- Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
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The Speaker, or Talman, of the Riksdag is the chairman of the national parliament in Sweden. The new Riksdag was created in 1867, when the old Riksdag of the Estates institution was abolished and included two chambers, each with its own speaker. Since the intoduction of parliamentarism in the 1920s the Riksdag has properly functioned as the Parliament of Sweden. In 1970 the institution underwent changes which transformed it into a unicameral legislative with 349 members as a precursor of the new Constitution of Sweden adopted in 1974.
See also
- King of Sweden
- Prime Minister of Sweden
- Politics of Sweden
- Government of Sweden
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The Speaker is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office is provided for in the United States Constitution in the second section of the first article, which states:In practice, this amounts to the speaker's election from the sitting house members. The speaker is thus almost always elected along strictly partisan lines, and is thus a member of the House's majority party. (The Speaker need not, by the Constitutional provision stated above, be a member of the House, but to date has always been one.
- "The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers..."
The Speaker is considered a partisan officer, unlike the nonpartisan Speaker of such bodies as the House of Commons. While there is a majority leader in the House of Representatives, he is in fact the second highest officer of the majority, and the Speaker is in fact the functioning leader of the majority. However, it is customary for the Speaker not to vote, unless his vote is necessary to pass a bill. The current Speaker is Republican Dennis Hastert of Illinois. He succeeded Newt Gingrich on January 6, 1999.
The Speaker is currently second in line to succeed to the US presidency in the case of death or resignation after the Vice President. (See United States Presidential line of succession.)
America's "Loyal Opposition"
The speaker of the House is ceremonially the highest ranking legislative official in the United States government. He is generally a well-known national figure, and thus a human "face" on the legislative branch. Since the Speaker and the President are often from different parties, this can sometimes leads to situtations in which the two men appear at odds with each other. The speaker can thus come to be seen as the leader of the "opposition" and the symbol of his party, and the very personification of partisan opposition to the President's agenda. The American speaker is also a much more politically active figure than many of his counterparts in other countries, and though he has little formal power, throughout American history the speakership has evolved into one of the nation's key political positions.
America's Prime Minister?
In the late nineteenth century, in particular following the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and the damage that was perceived to have done to the American presidency (already shaken by the assassination of his predecessor, Abraham Lincoln) by Congressional actions to limit Executive branch powers, it was speculated by academics, foreign diplomats based in Washington, D.C. and even by leading members of the Senate that the United States would evolve from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government, with the Speaker becoming a de-facto prime minister, sidelining the President of the United States. The President would in turn evolve into a form of nominal chief executive head of state, in whom legal executive authority would continue to be nominally vested but whose role as policy maker and head of government would in effect move to the Speaker. See Prime Minister of the United States for more discussion on this topic.
Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-present
See also Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
- Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg (Federalist-Pennsylvania) 1789-1791
- Jonathan Trumbull, Jr (Federalist-Connecticut) 1791-1793
- Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg (Republican-Pennsylvania) 1793-1795
- Jonathan Dayton (Federalist-New Jersey) 1795-1799
- Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist-Massachusetts) 1799-1801
- Nathaniel Macon (Republican-North Carolina) 1801-1807
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Republican-Massachusetts) 1807-1811
- Henry Clay (Republican-Kentucky) 1811-1814
- Langdon Cheves (Republican-South Carolina) 1814-1815
- Henry Clay (Republican-Kentucky) 1815-1820
- John W. Taylor (Republican-New York) 1820-1821
- Philip Pendleton Barbour (Republican-Virginia) 1821-1823
- Henry Clay (Republican-Kentucky) 1823-1825
- John W. Taylor (Republican-New York) 1825-1827
- Andrew Stevenson (Jacksonian-Virginia) 1827-1834
- John Bell (Whig-Tennessee) 1834-1835
- James Knox Polk (Democrat-Tennessee) 1835-1839
- Robert M.T. Hunter (Whig-Virginia) 1839-1841
- John White (Whig-Kentucky) 1841-1843
- John Winston Jones (Democrat-Virginia) 1843-1845
- John Wesley Davis (Democrat-Indiana) 1845-1847
- Robert Charles Winthrop (Whig-Massachusetts) 1847-1849
- Howell Cobb (Democrat-Georgia) 1849-1851
- Linn Boyd (Democrat-Kentucky) 1851-1855
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (American/Republican-Massachusetts) 1856-1857
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat-South Carolina) 1857-1859
- William Pennington (Republican-New Jersey) 1860-1861
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican-Pennsylvania 1861-1863
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican-Indiana) 1863-1869
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican-New York) 1869
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican-Maine) 1869-1875
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat-Indiana) 1875-1876
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat-Pennsylvania) 1876-1881
- Joseph Warren Keifer (Republican-Ohio) 1881-1883
- John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat-Kentucky) 1883-1889
- Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican-Maine) 1889-1891
- Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat-Georgia) 1891-1895
- Thomas Brackett Reed (Republican-Maine) 1895-1899
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican-Iowa) 1899-1903
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican-Illinois) 1903-1911
- Champ Clark (Democrat-Missouri) 1911-1919
- Frederick Huntington Gillett (Republican-Massachusetts) 1919-1925
- Nicholas Longworth (Republican-Ohio) 1925-1931
- John Nance Garner (Democrat-Texas) 1931-1933
- Henry Thomas Rainey (Democrat-Illinois) 1933-1934
- Joseph Wellington Byrns (Democrat-Tennessee) 1935-1936
- William Brockman Bankhead (Democrat-Alabama) 1936-1940
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat-Texas) 1940-1947
- Joseph William Martin, Jr (Republican-Massachusetts) 1947-1949
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat-Texas) 1949-1953
- Joseph William Martin, Jr (Republican-Massachusetts) 1953-1955
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat-Texas) 1955-1961
- John William McCormack (Democrat-Massachusetts) 1961-1971
- Carl Albert (Democrat-Oklahoma) 1971-1977
- Tip O'Neill (Democrat-Massachusetts) 1977-1987
- Jim Wright (Democrat-Texas) 1987-1989
- Thomas Stephen Foley (Democrat-Washington) 1989-1995
- Newt Gingrich (Republican-Georgia) 1995-1999
- Dennis Hastert (Republican-Illinois) 1999-present
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| spkr | English | Speaker | Military & Defense, Post & Telecom |
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Synonyms: SpeakerSynonyms: loudspeaker (n), loudspeaker system (n), speaker system (n), speaker unit (n), talker (n), utterer (n), verbaliser (n), verbalizer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain; (master); superior; mayor; (civil authority); vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch. |
Government | President, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister; senator, representatative, president pro tem, speaker of the house; department head, section head, section chief; federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice; treasurer, secretary of the treasury; director of the FBI. |
Interpreter | Spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece. |
Speech | Speaker; Verb: spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) Yeah, all we need is one more speaker from medieval (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) Guess who our commencement speaker is (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Through a three inch speaker. (All You Wanna Do Is Dance; performing artist: Joe) | |
Clever | In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. (references; author: unknown) It is not the speaker who controls communication, but the listener. (references; author: unknown) Attend this meeting and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch. (references; author: unknown) Your attitude is the librarian of your past, the speaker of your present, and the prophet of your future! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Loud Speaker (1926) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Senator Breaux, in the red shirt, was the keynote speaker at the Big Island restoration project dedication, July 1, 1998. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Caption: Edison Amberola (B)-I with Grill Removed Showing Speaker; Unknown Date; {29.110/119} (jpg). |
 | [A speaker at the acquisition policy symposium]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Principal speaker at the launching of USS Jesse L. Brown (DE-1089), at Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiania, 18 March 1972. During the Korean War, then Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Hudner received the Medal of Honor (worn in this photograph) for heroically attempting to rescue Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the ship's namesake. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Tris Speaker. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tristam Speaker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James Blaine with "As speaker" and "R.R. jobs" letters in pocket reaching for "the Millican papers" over "Blaine's record" hat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Speaker of the House Joe Cannon standing outside Convention Hall watching "Danville, Ill. Cannon Boomers" group try to light "The Cannon Cracker". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The only way Speaker - "The only way we can gain women's suffrage is by making our appeal through our charm, our grace, and our beauty" / / Held. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Speaker Cone" by Rory Franklin Commentary: "Here is a close up of my B&W speaker's. Weaved Kevlar Cone." | "Holy speaker batman!" by Keith M. Commentary: "A closeup on a computer speaker." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Homer | To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. |
Plutarch | In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. |
Stephane Mallarme | The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. |
Thomas Carlyle | If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? |
Voltaire | When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2028 | Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | And to the speaker himself it must surely bring the danger of loss of faith |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Only their eyes moved from speaker to speaker, and their faces were expressionless and quiet |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The plug contains a speaker, a microphone, and a device that is able to change the air pressure in the ear canal, allowing for several measures of the middle ear. The child feels air pressure changes in the ear or hears a few brief tones. (references) | |
Business | By law all companies establishing in Germany must have a fluent German speaker on the managing board. (references) | |
Brief, eye-catching materials which can be skimmed through quickly will net more interest than a long document crammed with details, no matter how pertinent those details are. In many instances, the decision-maker will not be a native English speaker. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ghana | The march ended at the Parliament building where the CDD leadership presented a petition to the Speaker of Parliament. (references) |
Iran | However, Supreme Leader Khamenei intervened with a letter to the Speaker demanding that the bill be dropped from consideration. (references) | |
Lebanon | The unwritten "National Pact" of 1943 stipulates that the President, the Prime Minister, and the Speaker of Parliament be a Maronite Christian, a Sunni Muslim, and a Shi'a Muslim, respectively. (references) | |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | The current Speaker is Murtuz Aleskerov. (references) |
Kenya | The attorney general and the speaker are ex-officio members of the National Assembly. (references) | |
Germany | By law, all companies in Germany must have a fluent German speaker on the managing board. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Many NGO's criticized the December 25 court decision, as did the speaker of the Federation Council. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On December 26, Sujleman Tihic, the Bosniak Deputy Speaker of the RS National Assembly, claimed that a security guard threatened to kill him. (references) | |
Russia | For example, on October 30, an unknown person fatally shot the Vice Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament Arsen Kammayev and a prominent local banker near the Vice Speaker's home. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | Other groups may petition the Speaker of Parliament for inclusion if they believe that they fulfill the requirements. (references) |
Political Economy | Kenya | Attorney General and Assembly Speaker are ex-officio, non-voting members. (references) |
West Bank | The PC's first order of business was to elect a Speaker, Ahmad Qurei (Abu Ala). (references) | |
Political Rights | Tonga | The King appoints the Speaker from among the representatives of the nobles. (references) |
Moldova | On March 20, Communist Deputy Eugenia Ostapciuc became Speaker of Parliament. (references) | |
Liberia | The Speaker admitted wrongdoing and resigned; however, in October he was reinstated. (references) | |
Trade | Cote D'ivoire | Do not assume the user is a native English speaker. (references) |
Travel | Philippines | A guest speaker is often the highlight of the dinner. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The AmCham sponsors monthly luncheon meetings with a featured speaker, intermittent breakfast meetings with visiting U.S. officials and other guests, and occasional cocktail get-togethers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Nepal | These groups commonly use leaflets, comic books, films, speaker programs, and skits to convey antitrafficking messages and education. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mark Shields | Intense Republican tactic is blowing, basically, from the Democrat success in demonizing and villainizing Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, making him the face of the Republican Party. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Speaker, this week we've seen further violence in the Middle East, Palestinian terrorists, suicide bombers, as well as the Israeli tanks moving in further and occupying the West Bank. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Kennedy, and with our greatest modern legislator, Speaker Sam Rayburn. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Tonight, I'm especially pleased to join with the Speaker and the Senate majority leader in urging the Congress to enact this plan by Easter. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Speaker, at your swearing-in, you asked us all to work together in a spirit of civility and bipartisanship. |
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| "Speaker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.89% of the time. "Speaker" is used about 8,377 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.89% | 7,195 | 1,348 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.11% | 1,182 | 6,534 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,377 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "speaker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Speaker | Last name | 400 | 19,415 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "speaker": be a fluent speaker ♦ deputy speaker ♦ he is no speaker ♦ intercom speaker ♦ invited speaker ♦ keynote speaker ♦ loud speaker ♦ native speaker ♦ popular speaker ♦ public speaker ♦ salutatory speaker ♦ speaker dependent recognition ♦ speaker identification ♦ speaker independent recognition ♦ speaker independent voice recognition ♦ speaker system ♦ speaker unit ♦ the speaker ♦ the speaker at a function ♦ valedictory speaker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "speaker": speaker-agreement, speaker-based, speaker-blaming, speaker-change, speaker-choice, speaker-dependent, speaker-evaluation, speaker-groups, speaker-hearer, speaker-independent, speaker-initiated, speaker-interaction, speaker-knowledge, speaker-like, speaker-meaning, speaker-oriented, speaker-presuppositions, speaker-referent, speaker-related, speaker-simulating, speaker-trained, speaker-variable, speaker-variables. | |
Ending with "speaker": four-speaker, native-speaker, six-speaker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stereo speaker | 39,941 | wireless outdoor speaker | 372 |
car speaker | 7,076 | energy speaker | 349 |
audio speaker | 6,192 | pc speaker | 342 |
speaker | 5,042 | pioneer speaker | 330 |
home theater speaker | 4,084 | speaker wire | 311 |
outdoor speaker | 2,774 | dj speaker | 309 |
surround speaker | 2,419 | marine speaker | 274 |
computer speaker | 2,277 | paradigm speaker | 270 |
wireless speaker | 1,355 | in wall speaker | 256 |
motivational speaker | 873 | conference speaker | 252 |
infinity speaker | 841 | sony speaker | 230 |
bose speaker | 708 | book shelf speaker | 227 |
speaker box | 649 | surround sound speaker | 222 |
speaker stands | 617 | home speaker | 217 |
jbl speaker | 530 | ceiling speaker | 217 |
keynote speaker | 450 | speaker stand | 214 |
speaker bureau | 443 | yamaha speaker | 213 |
professional speaker | 420 | standard speaker | 201 |
b w speaker | 398 | speaker of the house | 192 |
klipsch speaker | 383 | speaker phone | 183 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "speaker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | orator (orator, rhetor), kryetar (chairman, chairperson, chief, chieftain, coryphaeus, director, elder, governor, head, headman, leader, moderator, president, principal, ringleader, standard bearer), folës (announcer, narrator, newscaster, presenter, speaking, talker, talking), altoparlant (loudspeaker, megaphone). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكبر الصوت في الإستريو, مكبر الصوت (amplifier, loudspeaker, megaphone), محاور (interlocutor), ناطق بلسان (mouth, mouthpiece), المتحدث, الخطيب (betrothed), رئيس مجلس العمو, رئيس هيئة تشريعية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | радиоговорител, говорител (announcer, mouthpiece, newscaster), оратор (orator, public speaker, rhetor, rhetorician), председател на парламента. (various references) | |
Chinese | 議長 , 揚聲器 , 报告人, 演說者 (orator). (various references) | |
Czech | spíkr, tlampaè (loud speaker, megaphone), reproduktor (loud speaker), referent (officer, reporter), mluvèí (spokesman, talker), hlasatel (announcer, broadcaster, harbinger, Herald, newscaster, reporter), řeèník (orator, rhetorician), amplión (loud speaker). (various references) | |
Danish | taler (lecturer), forelaeser (lecturer), foredragsholder (lecturer). (various references) | |
Dutch | spreker (lecturer). (various references) | |
Farsi | متکلم , ناطق (Orator, Spokesman, Talker), گوینده (Announcer, Narrator, Teller), حرف زن , سخنگو (Spokesman, Talker), سخن ران , رءیس مجلس شورا. (various references) | |
Finnish | puhuja (orator), puhemies (chairman, president), luennoitsija (lecturer). (various references) | |
French | orateur (public speaker), locuteur (spokesman), conférencier. (various references) | |
German | Redner (discourser, orator, orators, public speaker, talker), Sprecher (announcer, foreman, narrator, newscaster, newsreader, orator, spokesman, spokesmen, spokesperson). (various references) | |
Greek | ομιλητής (lecturer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדבר, יושב ראש (chairman, moderator), איש דברים, דובר (mouth, mouthpiece, spokesman), דברן (orator, talker), רמקול (loudspeaker), נואם (orator). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szónok (orator, rhetorician, speech-maker, spouter), hangszóró (horn, loudspeaker, loud-speaker, megaphone), képviselőház elnöke, beszélő (rambler, talker, talking). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penutur (narrator, pronouncer), penceramah (lecturer, preacher), pembicara (adviser, discussant, lawyer). (various references) | |
Irish | cainteoir. (various references) | |
Italian | oratore (orator), conferenziere (lecturer), altoparlante (loud speaker, loudspeaker). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 語り手 (narrator, reciter), 話者 (narrator), 話し手 , 発言者 , 演説家 (orator), 演者 (presenter), 弁者 (orator), スパイ罪 (crime of espionage, fastball, ink spattering, slowing down, spaghetti, spaghetti meat sauce, spaghetti Western, span, span of control, spangle, Spanish, Spanish America, spanner, Spartacus Games, spasm, spats, spatula, speaker unit, speech, speech therapist, speech therapy, speed, speed ball, speed limit, speed skating, speed up, speed-gun, speedometer, speedway, speedy, spot, student slang for the restaurant chain "Spaghetti Factory", thank you, wrench). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | べんしゃ (orator), かたりて (narrator, reciter), わしゃ (narrator), スピーカー , スピーカ , はなして, はつげんしゃ, えんぜつか (orator), えんじゃ (presenter, relative). (various references) | |
Korean | 국회의장. (various references) | |
Manx | oraatagh (orator, oratorial), loayrtagh (recitative, spokesman), loayreyder (mouthpiece, talker), kione coyrlee, fockleyder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eakerspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | orador (debater, orator, panelist, rhetor). (various references) | |
Romanian | vorbitor (orator, speaking), raportor (protractor, reporter), purtãtor de cuvânt (mouthpiece, spokesman), orator (orator, oratress, spouter), interlocutor (companion, dialogist, interlocutor), conferenţiar (lecturer, reader). (various references) | |
Russian | громкоговоритель (loud speaker, loud-hailer, l |
