utterance¹ Definition
ut·ter·ance (ut′ər əns)
utterance² Definition
ut·ter·ance (ut′ər əns)
utterance Synonyms
utterance
n.
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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