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utterance¹ Definition

ut·ter·ance (utər əns)

noun

  1. the act of uttering, or expressing by voice
  2. the power or style of speaking
  3. that which is uttered; esp., a word or words uttered, whether written or spoken

Etymology: ME: see utter & -ance

utterance² Definition

ut·ter·ance (utər əns)

noun

Obsolete the utmost, or last, extremity; i.e., death

Etymology: ME, altered (infl. by utter) < MFr outrance: see outrance

utterance Synonyms

utterance

n.

declaration, saying, verbalization, phonation, assertion, announcement, pronouncement, ejaculation, vociferation, talk, speech, query, expression, sentence, declamation, statement, proclamation, recitation, asseveration, spiel, rant, jargon, response, reply, oration, peroration, set speech, delivered opinion.

utterance Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • interpret: JLS ] ) and provide hearers with cues to correctly interpret utterances.
  • speak: It is used in English word order to supplement spoken words but does attempt to present every element of the spoken utterance.
  • inspire: It is not easy to decide how far claims to inspired utterance existed among these Montanists of the West.
  • generate: V and so on, which in turn can be used to generate actual utterances.
  • produce: However, the model can also produce novel utterances by traversing generative links.
  • give: No philosopher would give utterance to, or endorse, such a sentiment.

Adjective modifier

  • prophetic: The Apostle Paul says, " Do not despise prophetic utterances.
  • poetic: As reconstructed by Lowes, the poetic utterance is a latent presence that speaks in and through the poet.
  • linguistic: In other words, the symbolic value of linguistic utterances is more important than the content of what one says.
  • mere: If this were a mere human utterance it might well be deemed profane, as tending to make little of his death.
  • verbal: Thus, every verbal utterance has at least two " meanings " .
  • meaningful: Nevertheless, it is to be expected that now and then a meaningful utterance will be produced.

Modifies a noun

  • verification: We have evaluated these confidence measures for utterance verification using a number of different metrics.
  • interpretation: How are we to model the process of utterance interpretation for this case?
  • meaning: Semantics is sometimes said to be the study of sentence meaning; pragmatics to be the study of utterance meaning.
  • type: In some dialects, the four utterance types were more clearly distinguished than in others.

Noun used with modifier

  • speech: The serial ordering of vision and of action provides the primitive foundation for the patterns of ordering in speech utterances.
  • language: Natural language generation tries to eliminate part of that problem by producing natural language utterances, on the basis of a given formal input.

Possessives

speaker: For example now is taken to mean some point or period in time that matches the time of the speaker's utterance.

Preposition: in

context: Default interpretations are here defaults for processing of an utterance in a particular context.

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