say
noun
1 say
The chance to speak.
Roget 582:
speech,
faculty of speech;
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle;
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration;
speechifying;
soliloquy
etc.
589;
allocution
etc.
586;
conversation
etc.
588;
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory;
elocution,
eloquence;
rhetoric,
declamation;
grandiloquence,
multiloquence†;
burst of eloquence;
facundity†;
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language;
copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech,
gift of the gab;
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v.;
spokesman;
prolocutor,
interlocutor;
mouthpiece,
Hermes;
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress†;
Demosthenes,
Cicero;
rhetorician;
stump orator,
platform orator;
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
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Roget 138:
periodicity,
intermittence;
beat;
oscillation
etc.
314;
pulse,
pulsation;
rhythm;
alternation,
alternateness,
alternativeness,
alternity†.
bout,
round,
revolution,
rotation,
turn,
say.
anniversary,
jubilee,
centenary.
catamenia†,
courses,
menses,
menstrual flux.
[Regularity of return]
rota,
cycle,
period,
stated time,
routine;
days of the week;
Sunday,
Monday
&c.;
months of the year;
January
&c.;
feast,
fast
&c.;
Christmas,
Easter,
New Year's day
&c.;
Allhallows†,
Allhallowmas†,
All Saints' Day;
All Souls',
All Souls' Day;
Ash Wednesday,
bicentennial,
birthday,
bissextile†,
Candlemas†,
Dewali,
groundhog day [U.S.],
Halloween,
Hallowmas†,
Lady day,
leap year,
Midsummer day,
Muharram,
woodchuck day [U.S.],
St. Swithin's day,
natal day;
yearbook;
yuletide.
punctuality,
regularity,
steadiness.
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Dutch: beslissingsbevoegdheid, inspraak, medezeggenschap
verb
1 say
2 say
Report or maintain:
— The registrar says that I owe the school money.
synonyms: allege, aver.
Roget 535:
assert;
make an assertion
etc.
n.;
have one's say;
say,
affirm,
predicate,
declare,
state;
protest,
profess.
put forth,
put forward;
advance,
allege,
propose,
propound,
enunciate,
broach,
set forth,
hold out,
maintain,
contend,
pronounce,
pretend.
depose,
depone,
aver,
avow,
avouch,
asseverate,
swear;
make oath,
take one's oath;
make an affidavit,
swear an affidavit,
put in an affidavit;
take one's Bible oath,
kiss the book,
vow,
vitam impendere vero [Lat.];
swear till one is black in the face,
swear till one is blue in the face,
swear till all's blue;
be sworn,
call Heaven to witness;
vouch,
warrant,
certify,
assure,
swear by bell book and candle.
swear by
etc.
(believe)
484;
insist upon,
take one's stand upon;
emphasize,
lay stress on;
assert roundly,
assert positively;
lay down,
lay down the law;
raise one's voice,
dogmatize,
have the last word;
rap out;
repeat;
reassert,
reaffirm.
announce
etc.
(information)
527;
acknowledge
etc.
(assent)
488;
attest
etc.
(evidence)
467;
adjure
etc.
(put to one's oath)
768.
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Dutch: aanvoeren, pretenderen, beweren, stellen
3 say
Express a supposition:
— Let us say that he did not tell the truth.
— Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?.
synonym: suppose.
Dutch: vermoeden, veronderstellen, aannemen
4 say
Have or contain a certain wording or form:
— What does the law say?.
synonym: read.
Dutch: luiden, opgeven, opzeggen, staan, zeggen
5 say
Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
synonyms: enjoin, order, tell.
Dutch: bevelen
6 say
Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way:
— I cannot say `zip wire'.
synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out.
Roget 582:
speak of;
say,
utter,
pronounce,
deliver,
give utterance to;
utter forth,
pour forth;
breathe,
let fall,
come out with;
rap out,
blurt out have on one's lips;
have at the end of one's tongue,
have at the tip of one's tongue.
break silence;
open one's lips,
open one's mouth;
lift one's voice,
raise one's voice;
give the tongue,
wag the tongue;
talk,
outspeak†;
put in a word or two,
hold forth;
make a speech,
deliver a speech
etc.
n.;
speechify,
harangue,
declaim,
stump,
flourish,
recite,
lecture,
sermonize,
discourse,
be on one's legs;
have one's say,
say one's say;
spout,
rant,
rave,
vent one's fury,
vent one's rage;
expatiate
etc.
(speak at length)
573;
speak one's mind,
go on the stump,
take the stump [U.S.].
soliloquize
etc.
589;
tell
etc.
(inform)
527;
speak to
etc.
586;
talk together
etc.
588.
be eloquent
etc.
adj.;
have a tongue in one's head,
have the gift of the gab
etc.
n..
pass one's lips,
escape one's lips;
fall from the lips,
fall from the mouth.
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7 say
Communicate or express nonverbally.
8 say
9 say
State as one's opinion or judgement; declare.
10 say
Recite or repeat a fixed text.
11 say
adverb
Roget 32:
to a small extent
[in a small degree],
on a small scale;
a little bit,
a wee bit;
slightly
etc.
adj.;
imperceptibly;
miserably,
wretchedly;
insufficiently
etc.
640;
imperfectly;
faintly
etc.
160;
passably,
pretty well,
well enough.
[in a certain or limited degree]
partially,
in part;
in a certain degree,
to a certain degree;
to a certain extent;
comparatively;
some,
rather in some degree,
in some measure;
something,
somewhat;
simply,
only,
purely,
merely;
at least,
at the least,
at most,
at the most;
ever so little,
as little as may be,
tant soit peu [Fr.],
in ever so small a degree;
thus far,
pro tanto [It],
within bounds,
in a manner,
after a fashion,
so to speak.
almost,
nearly,
well-nigh,
short of,
not quite,
all but;
near upon,
close upon;
peu s'en faut [Fr.],
near the mark;
within an ace of,
within an inch of;
on the brink of;
scarcely,
hardly,
barely,
only just,
no more than.
about
[in an uncertain degree],
thereabouts,
somewhere about,
nearly,
say;
be the same,
be little more or less.
no ways
[in no degree],
no way,
no wise;
not at all,
not in the least,
not a bit,
not a bit of it,
not a whit,
not a jot,
not a shadow;
in no wise,
in no respect;
by no means,
by no manner of means;
on no account,
at no hand.
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