(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.
List
Definition:
(n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
(v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
(v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen.
(v. t.) To listen or hearken to.
(v. i.) To desire or choose; to please.
(v. i.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
(n.) Inclination; desire.
(n.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.
(n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
(n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
(n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
(n.) A stripe.
(n.) A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
(n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
(n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
(n.) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
(n.) The first thin coat of tin.
(n.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
(v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
(v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
(v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list.
(v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
(v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
(v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(4) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(5) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(6) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(7) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(8) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(9) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
(10) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(11) Both enzyme species released 3-methyladenine, 7-methylguanine, and 3-methylguanine, listed in the order of decreasing activity.
(12) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(13) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(14) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(16) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
(17) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(18) Failure to meet these deadlines, and others listed in the judgement, face a daily fine of 150,000 reais.
(19) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(20) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.