Lisp vs. Scheme — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lisp and Scheme
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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.
Scheme
A systematic plan of action
"Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?" (Edith Wharton).
Lisp
One of the first high-level programming languages, designed to handle complex data structures. It is widely used in artificial intelligence research.
Scheme
A secret or devious plan; a plot
A scheme to defraud investors.
Lisp
A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).
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Scheme
An orderly plan or arrangement of related parts
An irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels.
Lisp
A sound of or like a lisp
"The carpenter['s] ... plane whistles its wild ascending lisp" (Walt Whitman).
Scheme
A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
Lisp
To speak with a lisp.
Scheme
To contrive a plan or scheme for; plot
Scheming their revenge.
Lisp
To speak imperfectly, as a child does.
Scheme
To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
Lisp
To pronounce with a lisp.
Scheme
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Lisp
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.
Scheme
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
Lisp
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.
Scheme
A systematic plan of future action.
Lisp
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
Scheme
A plot or secret, devious plan.
Lisp
(archaic) To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
Scheme
An orderly combination of related parts.
Lisp
(archaic) to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
Scheme
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
Lisp
(archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
To lisp treason
Scheme
(mathematics) A mathematical structure that enlarges the notion of algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring (e.g. Fermat curves over the integers).
Lisp
To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; - a defect common among children.
Scheme
A council housing estate.
Lisp
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.
Scheme
(internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as
http:
or news:
.Lisp
To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
Scheme
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
Lisp
To pronounce with a lisp.
Scheme
(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
Lisp
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.
Scheme
(transitive) To plan; to contrive.
Lisp
To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
Scheme
A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
The appearance and outward scheme of things.
Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.
Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.
The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
Lisp
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 .
Scheme
A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Lisp
A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th
Scheme
Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.
Lisp
A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
Scheme
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.
He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.
Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;I founded palaces, and planted bowers.
Lisp
Speak with a lisp
Scheme
To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.
Scheme
To form a scheme or schemes.
Scheme
An elaborate and systematic plan of action
Scheme
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Scheme
A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;
A vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going
Scheme
An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
Scheme
A schematic or preliminary plan
Scheme
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
Scheme
Devise a system or form a scheme for
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