单词 | lisp |
释义 | lisp (once / 3411 pages) nv A lisp is a manner of speaking so that s and other similar consonants are blurred into more of a th- sound. Most little kids have a bit of a lisp when they first start speaking. If you speak with a lisp, you can also say that you tend to lisp — and if you lisp in a way that makes it hard for people to understand what you're saying, you can visit a speech therapist who will teach you to speak without a lisp. Sometimes dental work — braces, or a mouth that's numb from having cavities filled — can give you a temporary lisp. Lisp comes from the imitative Old English wlisp. WORD FAMILYlisp: lisped, lisper, lisping, lisps+/lisper: lispers USAGE EXAMPLESHe was a cogent speaker but had a lisp and was a poor orator; he knew it, and rarely addressed a crowd. The New Yorker(Oct 03, 2016) The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp. Carl Hiaasen, Hoot(2002) One of these kids has a lisp; they are all members of their school’s A.V. club. The New Yorker(Sep 16, 2016) 1n a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th' Hyper defect of speech, speech defect, speech disorder a disorder of oral speech 2v speak with a lisp Hyper articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way LISP (once / 92339 pages) n WORD FAMILY LISP USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1958 — two years after organizing the first conference on artificial intelligence — McCarthy invented the computer programming language LISP. Nature(Nov 02, 2011) The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected. Raymond, Eric S., The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24...(2010) McCarthy in 1959 was turning his interest from chess to a new way of talking to the computer, the whole new "language" called LISP. Levy, Steven, Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Rev...(2010) n a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists Syn|Hyper list-processing language programing language, programming language (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
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