What's the difference between lisping and wisping?
Lisping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lisp
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.
Wisping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp
Example Sentences:
(1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
(2) The water layer (2 ml = 5 ml milk) was injected onto a Polymer Laboratories PLRP-S column using a WISP autosampler with the solvent, 0.01 M pH 7.0 phosphate buffer (A).
(3) Nutritional status was evaluated according to Gómez, intellectual performance according to Weschler's scale (WISP and WISC tests), psychomotor development according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test and PSAC according to a numerical scale constructed from maternal I.Q.
(4) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(5) The structure stained is approximately spherical, but wisps of faint fluorescence also extend into the body of the spindle.
(6) Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears as amyloid wisps.
(7) Kewell looks like that kid from the TV show Third Rock from the Sun - he's an ineffective wisp of a player and they should rid themselves of his services next season.
(8) constant number of merozoites in mature schizonts,--the disposition of the pigment, well apart from the parasitic mass to which it is linked by a tiny wisp of cytoplasm,--the normal host erythrocyte, the shape, size and colour of which are unaltered.
(9) On my third day I was at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre with my sister Katie, a documentary film-maker who was accompanying me, when I reached out to tuck a wisp of her hair that had come loose.
(10) Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do.
(11) The glowing doors of megastores are drawing us in with Pied Piped muzak and will-o’-the-wisp Christmas deals.
(12) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(13) Most amyloid wisps are isolated between astrocytic processes proliferating and penetrating into the plaque.
(14) Filmy wisps of tissue, presumably intimal flaps, were commonly visualized after angioplasty.
(15) The scientists will not only look for wimps, but also weakly interacting slim particles, or wisps.
(16) Another option is a member of the wisp family of particles called an axion.
(17) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
(18) Kicking off his own Twitter stream yesterday with a vintage image of himself and the words " hi im prince ", the Purple One proceeded to upload his very first selfie, which turned out to be a few wisps of smoke.
(19) Watch Kerry Godliman's routine here Jokes and standup routines are mercurial little will-o'-the-wisps.
(20) Normal collagen fibrils are infrequent; they are in part replaced by wisps of nondiscrete material, possibly immature collagen.