What's the difference between lilt and lisp?

Lilt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
  • (v. i.) To sing cheerfully.
  • (v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
  • (n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
  • (n.) A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All O157 serogroup isolates (n = 9) were hemolytic, and 89% (8 of 9) were LILT positive.
  • (2) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (3) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
  • (4) The culture secretary's tone was softer than usual, devoid of lilt.
  • (5) With less demand for big-screen expressions of either cathartic angst or romantic wish-fulfilment, we have instead witnessed a kind of gay cinematic present-mindedness in small-scale, naturalistic, bittersweet titles such as Weekend , Keep the Lights On and I Want Your Love ; and a willingness to explore grief, so often deferred through the years of struggle, in the likes of Last Address , Tom at the Farm and Lilting , a forthcoming feature starring Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning obliged to deal with his late partner's mother.
  • (6) With his black cowboy boots and a lilting accent that seems to hint at the South, he looks an unlikely visionary for urban Detroit as he describes vegetable plots, fields and greenhouses, all the while wielding a hefty stick to keep away stray dogs and looking at burnt-out houses sometimes used as crack dens.
  • (7) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
  • (8) The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop.
  • (9) The opening film will be the European premiere of Hong Khaou's Lilting , which stars Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning for the death of his lover Kai.
  • (10) Sitting in the bar beforehand, Kate is dressed in Adidas tracksuit and trainers, every word she says doused in her south London lilt.
  • (11) Our common enemies remain economy-trashing financiers and poverty-paying bosses, whether they speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the Queen’s English.
  • (12) Howson briefly joins us, sinking into a chair in the corner and addressing my questions in an undemonstrative West Yorkshire lilt.
  • (13) As am I. I could spend the rest of this piece delighting you with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork – our smiling, clever, children, gentle lilting voices, our rolling hills but I'm going to assume you already know all this.
  • (14) The voice is strong, with a vaguely mid-western lilt.
  • (15) It's a beautiful voice with its educated, New England lilt of a kind that barely exists anymore.
  • (16) Songs, such as Gil's anthem Domingo no Parque (Sunday in the Park), had a lilting nonchalance, lent by the bossa nova style (a mix of African-Brazilian samba and cool jazz) they had inherited - and superseded.
  • (17) • I Am Divine is out on 18 July, Lilting is out on 8 August, and Pride is out on 12 September.
  • (18) While the video is kind of dull, the song is another quietly arresting slither of emotional pop, De la Torre’s hushed vocal sighing its way through a chorus of: “All I wanted was a man to be true, but that isn’t you.” Subtler and more refined than a lot of pop music at the moment, it even ends with a lilting whistling solo – and there simply aren’t enough of those.
  • (19) Twenty-seven nonhemolytic isolates were tested for enterotoxigenicity; of these, 45% (12) were LILT positive.
  • (20) Of all hemolytic isolates tested, 59% (10 of 17) were LILT positive.

Lisp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
  • (v. i.) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • (v. i.) To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce with a lisp.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
  • (n.) The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
  • (2) He feels self-conscious about the way he looks and about the slight lisp the gap in his teeth produces.
  • (3) One group performed the task after listening to a tape recording of a young woman reading contextual material with a simulated lateral lisp.
  • (4) These data indicate that the lateral lisp is probably a speech defect and suggest that the practice of eliminating school speech services for children whose only speech difference is a lateral lisp should be reconsidered.
  • (5) Results indicated that both groups of tongue thrusters with and without interdental lisp scored significantly more poorly than did normal children (t = 4.68, P less than .001; t = 5.00, P less than .001), respectively.
  • (6) The algorithm can be implemented using a language such as C, PASCAL or LISP and runs on small machines.
  • (7) Trees and recursivity allow a very efficient codification into LISP or PROLOG.
  • (8) No significant differences in LMS between males and females with lisped speech, or between normal speaking males and females were found to exist at 5 age levels.
  • (9) In the LISP technique, a plateau of maximum Polybrene activity was found.
  • (10) In the trailer to a fraught, much-delayed documentary about MIA, leaked this summer by its director, Steve Loveridge, we see footage of a younger, lisping Maya talking to a camcorder.
  • (11) It is a microcomputer-based decision support system written in LISP and utilizes a hybrid frame and rule architecture.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between lingual muscular strength (LMS) and articulatory proficiency in 45 normal and 45 lisping speakers utilizing a Lingual Force Scale designed specifically for this investigation.
  • (13) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
  • (14) Several lines of evidence suggested that IgD-secreting cells could not be generated from LISP lymphocytes in vitro.
  • (15) This was merged with Reddit, and Reddit was rewritten from the Lisp programming language into Python, using Swartz's web.py framework.
  • (16) Human helminths were not recovered from Lispe leucospila (Wiedemann), Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) or the housefly Musca domestica L. In an urban slum area of Kuala Lumpur city, filariform larvae identified as the hookworm Necator americanus (Stiles) occurred in the intestines of the face-fly Musca sorbens Wiedemann (22 larvae per 100 flies) and of Chrysomya megacephala (4.5 larvae per 100 flies).
  • (17) In order to study the dynamics of protein and nucleic acid conformations, a molecular folding-unfolding system (FUS written in Lisp) has been developed.
  • (18) SENEX is being developed through object-oriented programming in a portable programming environment supported by COMMON LISP and the COMMON LISP INTERFACE MANAGER.
  • (19) This system encodes the input findings into the network expressions, which are represented as the list form in the LISP computer language.
  • (20) A prototype expert system called CAREPLAN, developed for use in an obstetrical environment, was built using Personal Consultant Plus, a software tool based on the LISP language.