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Lipreading

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• Lip-reading

  [lip-ree-ding] /ˈlɪpˌri dɪŋ/ noun 1. the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another’s lips without hearing the sounds made. [lip-reed] /ˈlɪpˌrid/ verb (used with object), lipread [lip-red] /ˈlɪpˌrɛd/ (Show IPA), lipreading [lip-ree-ding] /ˈlɪpˌri dɪŋ/ (Show IPA) 1. to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of […]

• Lip reflex

  lip reflex n. A pouting movement of the lips in young infants occurring in response to tapping near the angle of the mouth.

• Lips

  [lip] /lɪp/ noun 1. either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech. 2. Usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech: I heard it from his own lips. 3. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher. 4. […]

• Lipschitz-condition

  [lip-shits] /ˈlɪp ʃɪts/ noun, Mathematics. 1. the property of a function on a closed interval such that the absolute value of the difference in functional values at any two points in the interval is less than a constant times the absolute value of the difference of the points raised to some positive power m, called […]

• Lip-service

  noun 1. insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator. noun 1. insincere support or respect expressed but not put into practice n. “something proffered but not performed,” 1640s, from lip (n.) + service (n.1). Earlier in same sense was lip-labour (1530s). Insincere agreement; […]

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