Lip vs. Lisp
Lipnoun
(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
Lispnoun
The habit or an act of lisping.
‘He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.’; ‘It's common for children to speak with a lisp.’;
Lipnoun
(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
Lispverb
To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (lang=en). This is a speech impediment common among children.
‘Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.’;
Lipnoun
The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
Lispverb
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
Lipnoun
Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
‘Don’t give me any lip!’;
Lispverb
(archaic) To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
Lipnoun
The edge of a high spot of land.
Lispverb
(archaic) to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
Lipnoun
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
Lispverb
(archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
‘to lisp treason’;
Lipnoun
(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
Lispverb
To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; - a defect common among children.
Lipnoun
(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
Lispverb
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
‘As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.’;
Lipnoun
(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
Lispverb
To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
‘Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.’;
Lipnoun
Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
Lispverb
To pronounce with a lisp.
Lipverb
(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
Lispverb
To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
‘To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again.’;
Lipverb
(of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
Lispverb
To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
Lipverb
To wash against a surface, lap.
Lispnoun
The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
‘I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature."’;
Lipverb
(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
Lispnoun
a high-level computer programming language in which statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in parentheses; - used especially for rapid development of prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications .
Lipverb
(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
Lispnoun
a speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th
Lipverb
(transitive) To utter verbally.
Lispnoun
a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
Lipverb
(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
Lispverb
speak with a lisp
Lipverb
(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
Lisp
A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants ([s], [z], [ts], [dz], [ʃ], [ʒ], [tʃ], [dʒ]). These misarticulations often result in unclear speech.
Lipverb
To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
Lipnoun
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
‘Thine own lips testify against thee.’;
Lipnoun
An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
Lipnoun
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
Lipnoun
One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
Lipnoun
One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
Lipnoun
Impudent or abusive talk; as, don't give me any of your lip.
Lipverb
To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
‘The bubble on the wine which breaksBefore you lip the glass.’; ‘A hand that kingsHave lipped and trembled kissing.’;
Lipverb
To utter; to speak.
Lipverb
To clip; to trim.
Lipnoun
fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth
Lipnoun
an impudent or insolent rejoinder;
‘don't give me any of your sass’;
Lipnoun
the top edge of a vessel
Lip
Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of many animals, including humans. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech.
