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Definition: Lipreading |
LipreadingNoun1. Perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The process by which an observer comprehends speech by watching the movements of the speaker's lips without hearing the speaker's voice. (references) |
Medicine | The interpretation of movements of head, lips and face as an aid to communication by speech. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Lipreading |
| English words defined with "lipreading": lipread. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lipreading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lipreading" is used about 6 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lipreading | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lipreading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 读唇语 (lipread). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κατανόηση τησ ομιλίασ από τισ κινήσεισ των χειλιών. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リチウム爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, litre, redisplay, reduce, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance), 口話法 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リップリーディング , こうわほう. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 시화. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipreadinglay čitanje sa usana (lip reading). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lipreading": lipreadings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-l-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: derailing, diapering, redialing. | |
-2 letters: deairing, diplegia, dragline, gainlier, gliadine, grapline, pearling, pedaling, peridial, periling, pleading. | |
-3 letters: airline, aligned, aligner, dangler, darling, dealing, deliria, denarii, deraign, dialing, dingier, dirling, draping, eliding, engrail, gladier, glaired, gliadin, gnarled, gradine, grained, graplin, grapnel, lairing, larding, leading, leaping, lingier, nargile, pairing, pardine, parling, pealing, peridia, plained, plainer, praline. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-l-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: lipreadings. | |
+2 letters: depolarizing, despairingly, philandering, redisplaying. | |
+3 letters: interpleading, reduplicating. | |
+4 letters: depreciatingly. | |
+5 letters: depersonalizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 70 72 65 61 64 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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