(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) You need a little moleskine, to write rude ideas... Mel No, I’ve just started recycling them.
(2) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(3) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(4) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(5) This country has had a free press for the last 300 years, that has been irreverent and rude as my website is and holding public officials to account.
(6) We had some memorable encounters and he was very rude to me.
(7) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(8) There will be dialogue and discussions about what works, rather than rude surprises that backfire.
(9) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(10) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(11) If someone was rude to you, you were rude back to them.
(12) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
(13) He repeatedly argued that his south London upbringing meant he was rude to people who were rude to him and said Jones needed to “get over it”, although he said that he was unaware of his colleague’s history of illness.
(14) When he sees what he's inherited, he may get a rude awakening.
(15) Having reassured ourselves that we’re justified in “holding them to account” and “having robust debates” and “speaking truth to power”, we’re now just flat-out rude to their faces?
(16) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
(17) I said to them afterwards: ‘If you’re not on it 100% in this league, you’ll get a rude awakening.’’” Albion must be sick of the sight of QPR and Charlie Austin in particular.
(18) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(19) She said something rude, and I picked up her arm and I bit it!
(20) So instead of asking for anything on her birthday, she gives her friends presents, and she regularly sticks bullies and rude policemen in trees.