What is the difference between a 'speech' and a 'debate'?

Question

Does anyone know?

Please everything that you can think of here!

Answer 1

Speech:

talk given by one person.

Debate:

serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.a...

An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.

    After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debate?rdf...

a formal contest in which the affirmative and negative sides of a proposition are advocated by opposing speakers.

http://dictionary.infoplease.com/debate

A contestation between two or more persons, in which they take different sides of a question, and maintain them, respectively, by facts and arguments; or it is a discussion, in writing, of some contested point.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionar...

Answer 2

Indans like speech.

French like debate.

Japanese like none of them.

Answer 3

speech is talking about something. debate is arguing a point

speech: 1 a: the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words b: exchange of spoken words : conversation2 a: something that is spoken : utterance b: a usually public discourse : address3 a: language, dialect b: an individual manner or style of speaking4: the power of expressing or communicating thoughts by speaking

debate: : a contention by words or arguments: as a: the formal discussion of a motion before a deliberative body according to the rules of parliamentary procedure b: a regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides

Answer 4

A speech is a formal talk which someone gives to an audience, on one or a few subjects.

A debate is a formal discussion, for example in a parliament, in which people express different opinions about a particular subject or express their different views.

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Answer 5

A speech is when you talk about a set topic.

A debate is when you argue your point.

Answer 6

A speech is an idea presented by one person that presents a specific point of view.

A debate may cover many points and is essentially an argument or a series of explanations of opposing points of view.presented by each side; those for and those who oppose an idea.

Examples:

Barack Obama's speech about Change.

The presidential candidates debates on ending the Iraq war.

Answer 7

Usually one person makes a speech and two or more people/groups have a debate to argue a different side of the same topic.

Answer 8

This is the easiest answer I've ever given.  Ever.

Look both words up in a dictionary haha.

Ok, fine, I'll do the work for you.  A speech involves a single person talking.  A debate denotes a conversation, a back-and-forth dialogue between multiple people.  Now, one person's speech can be a single PART of a larger debate, but that's just semantics ;)

Answer 9

Speech:

The faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words.

Debate:

To engage in a formal discussion or argument by discussing opposing points.

it must be clear now from the above definations.