Dictionary Definition
say n : the chance to speak; "let him have his
say"
Verb
1 express in words; "He said that he wanted to
marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion";
"state your name" [syn: state, tell]
2 report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the
victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the
war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn:
allege, aver]
3 express a supposition; "Let us say that he did
not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would
you do?" [syn: suppose]
4 have or contain a certain wording or form; "The
passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: read]
5 state as one's opinion or judgement; declare;
"I say let's forget this whole business"
6 utter aloud; "She said `Hello' to everyone in
the office"
7 give instructions to or direct somebody to do
something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered
him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
[syn: order, tell, enjoin]
8 speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;
"She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip
wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn:
pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out,
enunciate]
9 recite or repeat a fixed text; "Say grace";
"She said her `Hail Mary'"
10 communicate or express nonverbally; "What does
this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he
felt?"
11 indicate; "The clock says noon" [also:
said]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /seɪ/, /seI/
Etymology
secġanVerb
- To pronounce
- Please say your name slowly and clearly.
- To recite
- Martha, will you say grace?
- To communicate,
either verbally or in writing
- He said he would be here tomorrow.
- To indicate in a
written form
- The sign says it's 50 kilometres to Paris.
Translations
to pronounce
- Czech: říct, povědět
- Danish: sige
- Finnish: sanoa, kertoa
- West Frisian: útsprekke
- Irish: abair
- Japanese: 言う, 語る; qualifier honorific おっしゃる
- Lao: (waw)
- Nahuatl: aquitoloc
- Norwegian: si
- Novial: dikte
- Polish: wymawiać
- Portuguese: dizer
- Russian: говорить (govorít') , сказать (skazát')
- Slovene: reči, povedati
- Spanish: decir
- Turkish: söylemek
to recite
- Irish: abair
- Japanese: 暗唱
to communicate verbally or in writing
- Czech: říct
- Danish: sige, fortælle
- Finnish: sanoa, virkkaa
- West Frisian: sizze
- Irish: abair
- Japanese: qualifier verbally 言う, 語る; おっしゃる
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: gotin
- Sorani: گۆتن, وتن
- Kurmanji: gotin
- Novial: dikte
- Polish: mówić
- Portuguese: dizer
- Russian: говорить (govorít') , сказать (skazát')
- Slovene: reči, praviti
- Spanish: decir
- Turkish: demek
to indicate in a written form
- Czech: říct
- Danish: fortælle
- Finnish: näyttää
- West Frisian: sizze, stean
- Irish: abair
- Japanese: qualifier be written 書かれている
- Norwegian: si
- Novial: dikte
- Portuguese: dizer
- Russian: гласить (glasít')
- Slovene: reči, praviti
- Spanish: decir
- Turkish: söylemek
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Arabic: (qa:la), (yaqu:l) (present tense)
- ttbc Basque: esan
- ttbc Bulgarian: казвам (kazvam)
- ttbc Chinese: 說, 说 (shuō)
- ttbc Dutch: zeggen
- ttbc Esperanto: diri
- ttbc Filipino: magsabi
- ttbc French: dire
- ttbc German: sagen
- Guaraní: 'e (ha'e, ere, he'i)
- ttbc Hungarian: mond
- ttbc Ido: dicar
- ttbc Indonesian: berkata, mengatakan, menyebutkan, bertutur
- ttbc Interlingua: dicer
- ttbc Italian: dire
- ttbc Korean: 말하다 (malhada)
- ttbc Latin: dicere
- ttbc Lojban: bacru
- ttbc Malay: cakap
- ttbc Manchu: (sembi), (hendumbi)
- ttbc Central Sierra Miwok: káčˑy-
- ttbc Persian: (goftæn), (gu) (present tense)
- ttbc Romanian: zice, spune
- ttbc Romansch: dir
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: abair
- ttbc Slovak: povedať
- ttbc Swedish: säga
- ttbc Telugu: చెప్పు (cheppu)
- Tupinambá: 'e (a'e, eré, e'i) (placed after the thing said in direct speech)
- ttbc Turkish: söylemek, demek
See also
References
Century 1911}}Crimean Tatar
Noun
sayDeclension
Extensive Definition
Say is to communicate orally. It can also refer
to:
- "Say" (song), by John Mayer from the film The Bucket List
- "Say" (Ryan Cabrera song), by Ryan Cabrera from the album The Moon Under Water
- Say, Niger
- Say (software), a Macintosh command line program to convert text to sound
- Jean-Baptiste Say, an economist
- Thomas Say, a naturalist
- Fazil Say, a musician
- "Say", a song by Cat Power from her 1998 album Moon Pix
- SAY Magazine
Say may also refer to:
- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Its ticker is SAY
say in French: Say
say in Italian: SAY
say in Japanese: SAY
say in Finnish: Say
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Australian ballot, Hare system, Parthian shot,
about, absolute power,
absolutism, acknowledge, acme, address, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, after-dinner
speech, allegation,
allege, allocution, almost, animadvert, announce, announcement, annunciate, annunciation, answer, answer back, apostrophe, approximately, approximatively,
argue, articulate, ascendancy, assert, assertion, assever, asseverate, asseveration, assume, authority, authorization, aver, averment, avouch, avouchment, avow, avowal, aye, ballot, be afraid, be-all and
end-all, believe, blue
ribbon, bout, break
silence, breathe, bring
out, canvass, canvassing, casting vote,
chalk talk, championship, chance, charisma, charm, chime, chime in, choice, chorus, cite, clout, come back, come out with,
command, comment, communicate, competence, competency, conceive, conclude, conclusion, consequence, consider, constituted
authority, contend,
control, convey, counting heads, crack, credit, creed, cumulative voting, daresay, debate, deciding vote, decision, declamation, declaration, declare, deduce, deem, delegated authority, deliver, diatribe, dictum, directorship, disclose, discretion, divine, divine right, division, dominance, domination, dominion, dream, echo, effect, effectiveness, eminence, emit, enchantment, enfranchisement,
enunciate, enunciation, esteem, eulogy, exclamation, exhortation, expect, express, expression, faculty, fagot vote, fancy, favor, feel, filibuster, first place,
first prize, flash back, fling off, for practical purposes,
force, forensic, forensic address,
formal speech, formulate, franchise, free choice, free
decision, free will, full consent, funeral oration, gather, generally, generally speaking,
give, give acknowledgment,
give answer, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give
utterance, give voice, go,
good feeling, grant,
graveyard vote, greeting, hand vote, harangue, have, headship, hegemony, height, highest, hold, hortatory address, imagine, impart, imperium, importance, in round numbers,
inaugural, inaugural
address, incidental power, indicate, indirect authority,
infer, influence, influentiality, inherent
authority, inning,
innings, insinuation, insist, interjection, invective, ipse dixit, issue a
manifesto, jeremiad,
jurisdiction, jus
divinum, just, kingship, lawful authority, lay
down, leadership,
legal authority, legitimacy, let, let be, let out, leverage, lip, list system, lordship, magnetism, maintain, management, manifesto, mark, mastership, mastery, maximum, mention, moment, more or less, most, nay, ne plus ultra, new high,
no, noncontingent free will,
nontransferable vote, note,
observation,
opine, opportunity, option, oration, out with, palms, paramountcy, pep talk,
peroration, personality, persuasion, philippic, phonate, phrase, pipe up, pitch, place, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, position, position paper,
positive declaration, potency, pour forth, power, practically, predicate, predication, predominance, preferential
voting, prefigure,
prepared speech, prepared text, preponderance, prerogative, present, presidency, pressure, prestige, presume, presuppose, presurmise, primacy, proclaim, proclamation, profess, profession, pronounce, pronouncement,
proportional representation, proposition, protest, protestation, provisionally
accept, proxy, public
speech, purchase,
put, put forth, put in
words, put it, question, quote, raise, react, read, reading, recital, recitation, recite, reckon, record, record vote, reecho, referendum, reflection, regality, register, reign, rejoin, relief, remark, repeat, reply, representation, repute, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for
answer, reverberate,
right, right to vote,
rightful authority, riposte, rising vote, roughly, roughly speaking,
round, roundly, royal prerogative,
rule, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory
address, say in reply, say out, say-so, saying, screed, secret ballot, sentence, set down, set forth,
set speech, shoot back, show of hands, single vote, snap vote,
sound, sovereignty, speak, speak out, speak up,
speech, speechification,
speeching, spell, stance, stand, stand for, stand on,
state, statement, straw vote,
suasion, subjoinder, submit, subtle influence,
suffrage, suggestion, suppose, supremacy, surmise, suspect, sway, take, take for, take for granted,
take it, take the floor, take to be, talk, talk back, talkathon, tell, the say, the say-so, think, thought, throw off, throw out,
time, time at bat, tirade, top spot, transferable
vote, turn, understand, upper hand,
utter, utterance, valediction, valedictory, valedictory
address, verbalize,
vested authority, vicarious authority, viva voce, vocalize, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, vouch, weight, whack, whip hand, whisper, word, write-in, write-in vote,
yea, yeas and nays, yes, zenith