 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
speaker
noun
1: 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" [syn: {talker},
{utterer}, {verbalizer}, {verbaliser}]
2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals
into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: {loudspeaker},
{speaker unit}, {loudspeaker system}, {speaker system}]
3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the
leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House
of Representatives"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Speaker \Speak"er\, noun
1. One who speaks. Specifically:
(a) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one
who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good
speaker, or a bad speaker.
(b) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one
who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative
assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates;
as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally,
the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the
Speaker of a House of Representatives.
2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "speaker":
acoustical network, capacitor speaker, chair, chairman, chatterbox,
coaxial speaker, cone, convener, conversationalist,
crossover network, debater, declaimer, demagogue, diaphragm,
dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker,
electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker,
excited-field speaker, full-fidelity speaker, haranguer, headphone,
headset, herald, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker,
horn, jawsmith, keynoter, lecturer, loudspeaker,
low-frequency speaker, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, mouth,
mouthpiece, moving-coil speaker, official spokesman, orator,
panelist, patterer, permanent magnet speaker, presiding officer,
prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, public speaker,
rabble-rouser, ranter, rapporteur, reporter, sayer, speaker system,
speaker unit, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler,
spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spouter, talker,
triaxial speaker, tub-thumper, tweeter, utterer, voice, voice coil,
woofer
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
speaker
1. {loudspeaker}.
2. The person who is (assumed to be) talking.
(1996-12-01)
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