noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a guest speaker/lecturer (= one who is invited to an event from another organization, university etc )
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The guest speaker at the conference was Dr. Kim.
keynote speaker
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Bill Gates is booked as the keynote speaker .
native speaker
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For the spoken language, students are taught by native speakers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
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Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings. Female speaker I think it's good.
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They stole £50. Female speaker I just felt dreadful.
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Female speaker I like the bouncing castle. Female speaker I like the bouncing castle because you can go high.
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They are unlikely to follow suit Female speaker I don't think we would engage in that sort of thing.
male
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Voice over Others are in worse straits. Male speaker I know farmers who still have two hundred acres to get in.
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But Michael Grant's father was dissatisfied with the outcome: Male speaker Thirty thousand pounds is nothing for some one's life.
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It supports the theory he will strike again. Male speaker There's a feeling of guilt soon after.
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Male speaker It's wonderful. Male speaker My favourites are the crocodiles.
native
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This involves accessing, directly or indirectly, the intuition of a native speaker .
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You select an Esperanto phrase, then hear the phrase as spoken by a native speaker .
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Remember that the language is spoken at normal speed for an audience of native speakers .
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The higher stages include adaptations of a wide variety of titles originally published for native speakers .
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The situation is different for native speakers of the language who automatically perceive the speech as being chopped up into discrete units.
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This process is trivial for a native speaker of a language, however for a computer system the solution is more difficult.
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You will need one or more native speakers of the language to help you in your learning.
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The listening activities feature dialogues with native and non-native speakers , allowing students to gain access to a wide variety of accents.
■ NOUN
guest
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They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
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Most people tend to have a high expectation of a guest speaker of your reputation.
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The monthly meetings include discussions of Club business, talks by guest speakers and vendor presentations.
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Every Tuesday a guest speaker from the community came in to talk about a particular aspect of the law.
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The department runs a research seminar, with guest speakers and opportunities for postgraduate students to present their work.
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Prince Charles, in his capacity as president of the charity Business in the Community, was to be the guest speaker .
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The Committee organises an interesting programme which includes visits to science exhibitions and talks by guest speakers .
house
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But the House speaker apparently failed to forward any nomination for the automatic but constitutionally required approval of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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Early trends showing continued Republican control of the House assured Gingrich another term as House speaker .
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The House speaker said the deadlock may not be broken before the election in November.
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The winning party gets to elect the next House speaker .
keynote
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I thank you for the honour of being asked to be your keynote speaker tonight.
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While serving as state treasurer, Ann Richards was the keynote speaker at the Democrats' 1988 convention in Atlanta.
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The keynote speaker had wound up to polite applause.
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The keynote speaker was Arthur Goldberg, now a Supreme Court justice.
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Is it the party that selected Susan Molinari, a moderate, pro-choice congresswoman, as its keynote speaker ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stump speech/speaker
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Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech, either.
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Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech.
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His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.
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No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.
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Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.
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They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.
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Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscal manager and a good stump speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Speakers of Cantonese often cannot understand speakers of Mandarin.
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All our English teachers are native speakers.
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Doug Williams is the first speaker in tonight's debate.
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Each week the school has a different guest speaker come and talk to the students.
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Everyone tells me I'm a good speaker , but I really hate doing it.
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Former President Carter will be the main speaker at the graduation.
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Jennings was one of the keynote speakers at the conference's opening session Thursday.
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Kennedy was known as a brilliant public speaker .
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The hotel has two English speakers on its staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A compact disk player, rare for its day, fed Chopin and the Rolling Stones into fierce-looking, six-foot MartinLogan speakers.
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The speaker has, in the past, paid a fine for not disclosing fully his property ventures with lobbyists.
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The Baby pushes out 30 watts through a single ten-inch dual-cone speaker , and features two channels.
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What could be more fun than heckling the problem speaker at your own eulogy?