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Lisp vs Caddr - What's the difference?

lisp | caddr |

Caddr is a related term of lisp.



As nouns the difference between lisp and caddr

is that lisp is the habit or an act of lisping while caddr is car of the cdr of the cdr in LISP. The third element in a list.

As a verb 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.

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

    * *

    caddr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) Car of the cdr of the cdr in LISP. The third element in a list.
  • * Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach , 2000 :
  • If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.