(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
(v. t.) To utter; to speak.
(v. t.) To clip; to trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(3) The authors report their experience of the reconstruction by z-plasty in cases of shortness of the lip frenum.
(4) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(7) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(8) Single doses of lip-AMB resulted in 88 to 100% survival by day 42.
(9) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(10) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(13) Lower lip perturbation duration was manipulated to yield two different load conditions.
(14) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(15) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(16) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(17) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(19) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(1) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(2) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
(3) The manager Marcello Lippi has been encouraging a more expressive style but that had been of sporadic worth.
(4) His suggestion for the team Lippi will play is the following: Buffon, Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Chiellini, Guscito; De Rossi, Montolivo; Pepe, Marchisio, Iaquinta; Gilardino.
(5) I worked for a long time with three greats, so learned from [Marcelo] Lippi, [Fabio] Capello and [Carlo] Ancelotti.
(6) Instead Marcello Lippi took the players inside for some gym work, causing no end of frustration among the Italian hacks present, who had been hoping to gain some insight into the starting XI he was planning to put out.
(7) Simone Perrotta worked under managers as talented as Luciano Spalletti at Roma and Marcello Lippi with the Italian national team.
(8) Yates's lippy, ludicrous public image made her an easy target for derision.
(9) Opposite Ranieri that night was the emergent Juventus manager Marcello Lippi, for whom the match was a turning of the wheel in the season, en route to the first of five Scudetti he would win for Juventus, followed by a European Super Cup, a Uefa Cup, an Italian Cup, four Italian Super Cups, a European Super Cup, an Intercontinental Cup - then the World Cup for Italy in 2006.
(10) Lippi's team, overall, has been the best in this tournament but recognition of that is muddled by admiration for the pluck that France showed and sadness that Zidane should have left the stage in such a dismal manner.
(11) Marcello Lippi, the manager, was unhappy at his team's failure to convert possession and territorial advantage into clear-cut chances and De Rossi's goal was not so much the result of Italy's invention as an error by the Paraguay goalkeeper, Justo Villar.
(12) The paper did cut Lippi some slack, adding that if the team lacked talent, "our football doesn't have much else to offer unfortunately".
(13) For the record, here's what I think Lippi should do: (4-3-3) Buffon; Maggio, Bonucci, Chiellini, Criscito; De Rossi, Palombo, Marchisio; Di Natale, Pepe, Gilardino And here's what I think Lippi will do: (4-3-3) Buffon; Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Bonucci, Chiellini; De Rossi, Montolivo, Marchisio; Iaquinta, Pepe, Gilardino Big concerns for me are Cannavaro - who has just been poor for much of the season - and Iaquinta being used out of position on the left-side of attack.
(14) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
(15) Cesare Prandelli has brought only five others from that group to Brazil – Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Pirlo and Daniele De Rossi – and the manager that succeeded Lippi after South Africa has instigated change on many levels.
(16) After's Sunday's win over Inter, the 'bring back Lippi' blogging abated entirely and Friday's glowing headlines in La Stampa summed up his current popularity.
(17) The changes of personnel made by a perturbed Lippi were nearly followed by a breakthrough.
(18) "Good luck to my successor," was Lippi's parting remark.
(19) She also took her eyes off the road to adjust her lippy and ended up swerving off it.
(20) Lippi made a couple of substitutions at half-time but, when he saw Antonio Di Natale miss the target from a presentable opportunity just before the hour, he played the only card he had left and sent on Andrea Pirlo, the midfielder Italy have been unable to use so far because of injury.