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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lisp
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bobbi speaks with a slight lisp.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had a slight lisp that used to be more pronounced.
▪ He spoke with a slight lisp and greeted Louis with respect but without subservience.
▪ Its note had none of the lisp of a flute but was bell-like in its clarity.
▪ Only in the frankly imitative words like buzz and lisp do hint and pointing coincide.
▪ The man with the lisp joined him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
LISP

LISP \LISP\ (l[i^]sp), n. (Computers) [List Processing.] a high-level computer programming language in which statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in parentheses; -- used especially for rapid development of prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lisp

late Old English awlyspian "to lisp," from wlisp (adj.) "lisping," probably of imitative origin (compare Middle Dutch, Old High German lispen, Danish læspe, Swedish läspa). Related: Lisped; lisping.

lisp

1620s, from lisp (v.).

Wiktionary
lisp

n. The habit or an act of lisping. vb. 1 To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ ((IPA /θ /ð/ English)) — a defect common amongst children. 2 To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. 3 To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid. 4 To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language. 5 To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.

WordNet
lisp
  1. n. 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 [syn: list-processing language]

lisp

v. speak with a lisp

Wikipedia
Lisp (programming language)

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp has changed since its early days, and many dialects have existed over its history. Today, the best known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Common Lisp and Scheme.

Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, conditionals, higher-order functions, recursion, and the self-hosting compiler.

The name LISP derives from "LISt Processor". Linked lists are one of Lisp's major data structures, and Lisp source code is made of lists. Thus, Lisp programs can manipulate source code as a data structure, giving rise to the macro systems that allow programmers to create new syntax or new domain-specific languages embedded in Lisp.

The interchangeability of code and data gives Lisp its instantly recognizable syntax. All program code is written as s-expressions, or parenthesized lists. A function call or syntactic form is written as a list with the function or operator's name first, and the arguments following; for instance, a function that takes three arguments would be called as .

Lisp (disambiguation)

A lisp is a type of speech impediment.

Lisp may also refer to:

  • Lisp (programming language), a family of computer programming languages
  • Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol, a "map-and-encapsulate" Internet protocol
  • Lisp Machines, a company that built Lisp Machines out of MIT
Lisp (band)

Lisp was an English trip hop band from East London. Formed in 1995, they were signed to Mind Horizon Recordings, a subsidiary of London Records, on which they released their first and only album, Cycles (2000), which saw radio success from its singles "Flatspin" and "Long Way to Climb".

Lisp

A lisp, also known as sigmatism, is a speech impediment in which a person misarticulates sibilants . These misarticulations often result in unclear speech.

Usage examples of "lisp".

Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .

At Paris, where I heard her playing well and lisping terribly, she did not find the authors so obliging, but she pleased the people.

Miss Jellop, a thin, middle-aged lady with a lisping voice and large protruding eyes.

And then the lisping robot, with its insidious hints of secret knowledge.

He was still screaming when the lisping voice of the harem robot announced the cessation of hostilities between the Central Command System and the security networks.

It would be a long task to tell how her lisping tongue turned everything then to favour and to prettiness.

Their lisping tongues, their pretty broken speech, their simple words, their childish thoughts, all fitted with her own needs, for she was nothing but a child herself, though grown to be a lovely maid.

Thus again, the same day, not an hour afterwards, she came running back to the house from the grass bank in front of it, holding a flower in her hand, and asking a world of hot questions concerning it in her broken, lisping, pretty speech.

With this lisping, coaxing, companionable sea the serene and sparkling sky, the glow beyond the worlds, the listening isles--demure and dim--the air moist, pacific and fragrant--what concern of mine if the smoky messenger from the stuffy town never comes?

She fully expected to hear Harold lisping out a detailed recitation of her sins.

He was lisping a little, but maybe it was because he had grown two enormous fangs.

From the decor of the room, which consisted of sculpture, paintings, needlepoint, and other media depicting the backsides of naked man, Remo got the distinct impression that Bobby Jay was going to burst into a torrent of lisping in a matter of seconds.

There was a strange wet lisping to it all, as if of a tongue being razzed against protruding lips.

SHAEF staff by pronouncing Shayfe as Sheef, and then going onto explain that a sheaf was something somebody who lisped put on when he wished to diddle somebody.

His lisping words, his tottling steps, His smiles they praise and prize, They love him for his cunning ways, I love him for his eyes.