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adjective

Speaking adj.

Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.

Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.

A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects.

Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance.

Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance.

To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted.

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Etymology of 'Speaking tube'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Speaking tube" Quotes from Famous Books

... fatuously fancied that the timbered and rocky walls on both sides would have protected it from the wintry Colorado winds; but I feared the drift. Even now through the endless, bottomless rift in the hills—the speaking tube of the four winds—came roaring the voice of the proprietor to the little room ...

— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry

... him to the wall where the day before he had installed a peculiar box about four by six inches long connected in some way with a lens-like box of similar size above our bell and speaking tube in the hallway below. He opened it, disclosing an oblong plate of ...

— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... couple of thousand, Lieutenant," said Dr. Bird into the speaking tube. "We can't see ...

— The Solar Magnet • Sterner St. Paul Meek

... right up to the address," Grace told him through the speaking tube. "Stop a little below, but in a place where I can see ...

— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks

... hurried directions through the speaking tube to the attentive footman, and so explicit were these directions that the greatest excitement prevailed upon the decorous front seat of the car—first the footman looked back along the road, then the chauffeur, after which a thrill of excitement seemed to fairly race up and down their liveried ...

— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon