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Lip vs Lisp - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between lip and lisp

is that lip is either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth while lisp is the habit or an act of lisping.

As verbs the difference between lip and lisp

is that lip is to touch with the lips; to kiss or lick; to lap the lips against something while lisp is to pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ ({{IPA|/θ /ð/|lang=en}}) — a defect common amongst children.

As a proper noun Lisp is

a functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.

lip

English

Noun

  • (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
  • * Bible, Jeb. xv. 6
  • Thine own lips testify against thee.
  • (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , I twisted my thighs, squeezed, and compressed the lips of that virgin slit}}
  • (countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
  • (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
  • Don’t give me any lip !
  • The edge of a high spot of land.
  • * 1913 ,
  • They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip . Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river.
  • * 1894 , David Livingstone, A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries ,
  • We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip' of the Falls. On reaching that ' lip , and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us.
  • The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  • (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
  • (botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
  • (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
  • Synonyms

    * (either of the fleshy protrusions around the mouth) labium (medical term ) * (part of body resembling a lip) labium (medical) * (rim of an open container) edge, rim * (impertinence) backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness

    Derived terms

    * black lip * cleft lip * fat lip * lip gloss * lipless * liplike * lip-lock * lipped * lipping * lippy * lip-read * lip-reader * lip service * lip-smacking * lipstick * lip-strap * lip-synch * loose lip * tight-lipped

    Verb

  • To touch with the lips; to kiss or lick; to lap the lips against something.
  • * Praed
  • The bubble on the wine which breaks / Before you lip the glass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A hand that kings / Have lipped and trembled kissing.
  • To utter verbally.
  • (Keats)
  • To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader.
  • (sports) to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
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    lisp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The habit or an act of lisping.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ () — a defect common amongst children.
  • To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
  • To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • * Drayton
  • Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
  • 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.
  • * Tyndale
  • to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again
  • To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
  • to lisp treason

    See also

    * brogue * drawl * lilt * twang

    Anagrams

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