I.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(there's) many a true word spoken in jest
be spoken for
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But all of the money is spoken for.
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Contest ends when all tickets are spoken for.&.
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Most of your capital is spoken for, and the creditors are closing in.
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Though they were spoken for my benefit, I could not be assumed to share the same norms.
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When the words were spoken for the third time, however, the divorce was irrevocable.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quietly
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He was a quietly spoken middle-aged man whom anyone would find difficult to remember.
softly
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Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.
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Elderly, softly spoken Mr Crawford in that rather Dickensian office in the City was a far cry from this.
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It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings.
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For in the softly spoken comment she had sensed condemnation.
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Their loving was wild and tempestuous, with no time to spare for tenderness or softly spoken promises.
■ NOUN
discourse
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As a result, spoken discourse comes to be regarded as more honest and truthful.
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In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure.
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Some of the features we have described as marking paratone boundaries in spoken discourse can, of course, have other functions.
form
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The distinction between the two written forms does not correspond to any distinction in their spoken form.
language
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This figure, of course, is much higher than one expects for two unrelated spoken languages .
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The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language .
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One reason for this is that reading development is normally closely related to children's knowledge of spoken language .
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Many facets of spoken language are absent from written language.
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For this reason, spoken language interpreters are specifically trained to reject the effects of their utterance of the target language.
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This is true even though they bring to the search the knowledge they already possess about how spoken language works.
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They occur alongside spoken language , interact with it, and produce, together with it, a total system of communication.
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The information you get from him/her will be spoken language .
word
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But the power of X-Clan is not the spoken word .
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In cases of conduction aphasia, comprehension of spoken words and simple spoken sentences can be intact.
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By the time the talking was over, the hearings had generated over nine million spoken words .
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Thus, in spoken word identification, context plays a part before identification has been achieved.
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The spoken word must be heard clearly.
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Large halls ideal for music can be too reverberant for the spoken word .
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The most important bias of dictionaries is to the written rather than the spoken word .
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We recorded some spoken word with Burroughs to incorporate directly into a remix of the song.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be spoken for
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But all of the money is spoken for.
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Contest ends when all tickets are spoken for.&.
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Most of your capital is spoken for, and the creditors are closing in.
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Though they were spoken for my benefit, I could not be assumed to share the same norms.
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When the words were spoken for the third time, however, the divorce was irrevocable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Idiomatic and spoken phrases tend to differ widely throughout the country.
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This book will help you with both spoken and written English.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the time the talking was over, the hearings had generated over nine million spoken words.
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Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.
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In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.
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It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings.
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One item which is becoming more significant is powers of communication - both spoken and written word.
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One very important problem in early learning is caused by the difference between spoken and written language.
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The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language, even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous.
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The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.