Lisp vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
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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
To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
* Drayton
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 with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
As a proper noun lisp
is .As a noun taxonomy is
the science or the technique used to make a classification.lisp
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
- Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
- 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 lisp treason
