(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.
Liss
Definition:
(n.) Release; remission; ease; relief.
(v. t.) To free, as from care or pain; to relieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Weakly reactive antibodies (n = 25) were tested by PEG, Polybrene, and low ionic strength saline (LISS); 64% were strongest in PEG, 28% reacted equally in PEG as in Polybrene or LISS, 8% reacted weaker in PEG than in Polybrene or LISS.
(2) Since most alloantibodies detected only by 2SP-IAT or LISS-DAG were of doubtful clinical significance, and these techniques produced a high number of unwanted positive reactivities, we conclude that 2SP-IAT and LISS-DAG are not appropriate for the pretransfusion screening for unexpected antibodies.
(3) Screening tests for unexpected antibodies, using low-ionic-strength saline (LISS), 10 minutes' incubation at 37 degrees C, and anti-IgG, were nonreactive; however, 1 transfused unit was found crossmatch incompatible by indirect antiglobulin technique (IAT).
(4) Manual hexadimethrine bromide (Polybrene) tests (Polybrene in low-ionic medium) were used in parallel with manual low-ionic-strength solution (LISS) procedures for the routine testing of patient samples referred to a general hospital blood bank.
(5) Serologic techniques included LISS-direct agglutination (DAG) reading plus indirect antiglobulin test (IAT), and two-stage papain (2SP)-IAT.
(6) LISS technique with broad spectrum AGT appears to be suitable and superior for routine antibody detection and compatibility tests.
(7) This specificity was determined by studies with enzyme-treated and neuraminidase-treated human red blood cells (RBCs), animal RBCs and chemically-modified sialoglycoproteins, all suspended in a low ionic strength solution (LISS).
(8) Adam Stanley, assistant headteacher at Liss primary school in Hampshire, said: “The prime reason [for installing solar panels] was the attraction of a clean sustainable form of energy, which sent out a very clear message that we were serious about looking after the environment.” He said the subsidy cuts have already discouraged other schools from following suit.
(9) The electrical behavior of the OHC does not disqualify it as a conveyor of auditory information to the central nervous system, even though its primary function may be that of a mechanical effector (evidence summarized by Dallos, P. (1985) in Contemporary Sensory Neurobiology, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp.
(10) The recent availability of report generators on commercial Laboratory Information Systems (LISs) mark their transition from automating to informating systems.
(11) In search for antibodies in sera of 1160 patients IAT-PEG detected 7 antibodies not reacting in the IAT-LISS, and 5 of them had Rh system specificity, one was anti-K and one anti-Jka.
(12) D. Oxender ed., Alan R. Liss, New York (1985), in press.
(13) Ten antibodies reacted only on the PEG-IAT and 14 only by the LISS-IAT; the remaining 26 antibodies were detected by both methods.
(14) Prior to transfusion, the antiglobulin antibody screen performed in LISS and an immediate spin crossmatch were negative.
(15) and Denial, T. (1985) in The Molecular Basis of Cancer, 172B, 65-75 (Rein, ed), A. Liss, N.Y.) the measured order of competitor DNA strengths was identical for all three tracer DNAs.
(16) The LISS methods, however, appeared to be more sensitive in detecting antibodies of potential clinical significance.
(17) The authors studied 1,177 sera for unexpected red cell antibodies by comparing one versus two drops of patient serum using a technique with LISS at 37 degrees C through the antiglobulin phase.
(18) For 54 percent of the antibodies in the Kell system, LISS produced significantly higher titers; for 25 percent of antibodies in the Rh system, LIP did so.
(19) With R2R2 red blood cells and LISS, papain, polybrene, or a combination of methods, Rh immune globulin could still be detected until delivery in four of the nine patients.
(20) In routine work, the LISS-SPAT provides a fast, reliable, handy and inexpensive screening of antibodies.