LISP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does LISP mean? 

• LISP (noun)
  The noun LISP has 2 senses:

1. a speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th'

2. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists

  Familiarity information: LISP used as a noun is rare.

• LISP (verb)
  The verb LISP has 1 sense:

1. speak with a lisp

  Familiarity information: LISP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LISP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lisp" is a kind of...):

defect of speech; speech defect; speech disorder (a disorder of oral speech)

Derivation:

lisp (speak with a lisp)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

LISP; list-processing language

Hypernyms ("LISP" is a kind of...):

programing language; programming language ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)

• LISP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lisp    ... he / she / it lisps   
Past simple: lisped   
Past participle: lisped   
-ing form: lisping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak with a lisp

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "lisp" is one way to...):

articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

lisp (a speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th')

lisper (a speaker who lisps)

 Context examples 

Sir Nigel was a slight man of poor stature, with soft lisping voice and gentle ways.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘You will excuse my coming in, doctor,’ said he to me, speaking English with a slight lisp.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had always done this from the time they could lisp... and it had become a household custom, for the mother was a born singer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Their code has been drummed into your head from the time you lisped, and in spite of your philosophy, and of what I have taught you, it won’t let you kill an unarmed, unresisting man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Should you be a gentleman of quarterings and coat-armor, lisped Sir Nigel, I shall be very blithe to go further into the matter with you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the 'Bhaer-garten', though some people predicted that his admission would ruin the school.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The subject seemed strangely chosen for an infant singer; but I suppose the point of the exhibition lay in hearing the notes of love and jealousy warbled with the lisp of childhood; and in very bad taste that point was: at least I thought so.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By Saint Paul! lisped Sir Nigel, this is certainly a man whom it is worth journeying far to know.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)