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LIPREADING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lipreading mean?
• LIPREADING (noun)
The noun LIPREADING has 1 sense:
1. perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips
Familiarity information: LIPREADING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lipreading" is a kind of...):
perception; sensing (becoming aware of something via the senses)
Derivation:
lipread (interpret by lipreading; of deaf people)
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