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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Speaker \Speak"er\, n.
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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
speaker
n 1: someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public
speech) [syn: {talker}]
2: 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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
speaker
1. {loudspeaker}.
2. The person who is (assumed to be) talking.
(1996-12-01)
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