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Lipread

Definition: Lipread

Lipread

Verb

1. Interpret by lipreading; of deaf people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Usage Frequency: Lipread

"Lipread" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lipread" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lipread

Language Translations for "lipread"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

读唇语 (lipreading). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

시화하십시요. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipreadlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Lipread

Derivations

Words beginning with "lipread": lipreading, lipreadings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lipread

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: predial.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r"

-1 letter: aliped, ariled, derail, dialer, diaper, elapid, laired, paired, palier, pardie, parled, pedlar, pleiad, railed, redial, relaid, repaid.

-2 letters: aider, ailed, aired, alder, ariel, deair, drail, drape, ideal, idler, irade, lader, laird, liard, lidar, padle, padre, padri, paled, paler, pardi, pared, parle, pearl, pedal, peril, pilar, pilea, piled, plaid, plead, plied, plier, pride.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r"
 

+1 letter: deprival, dipteral, epidural, parslied, pedalier, peridial, pillared, praedial, spiraled, tripedal.

 

+2 letters: calipered, caprioled, deprivals, dispersal, epidermal, impearled, leporidae, overplaid, parboiled, pearlized, pedaliers, pedlaries, philander, polarised, polarized, presidial, prevailed, reapplied, redisplay, spiralled.

 

+3 letters: callipered, dealership, depilatory, depolarize, dispersals, epicardial, espadrille, espaliered, fireplaced, interplead, lapidaries, leadership, lipreading, nephridial, overplaids, palindrome, panbroiled, paradiddle, periodical, philanders, plaistered, pluralized, predicable, preholiday, premedical, proclaimed, prudential, redisplays, repleading, replicated, spheroidal, tetraploid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lipread


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 70 72 65 61 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "lipread"


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