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English

Pronunciation

Standard: IPA: /lɪsp/
Humorous:
#IPA: /lɪθp/
#IPA: /lɪʪp/

Noun

The habit or an act of lisping.

Translations

Icelandic: {{t-|is|smámæli|n}}

Spanish: {{t-|es|ceceo|m}}, {{t-|es|balbuceo|m}}

Verb

Pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (IPA: /θ / ð/) — a defect common amongst children.
Speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
Speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
Pronounce with a lisp.
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.
Speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.

Translations

Icelandic: vera smámæltur , vera smámælt

Spanish: {{t-|es|cecear|m}}, {{t-|es|balbucear|m}}

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lisp \Lisp\ (l[i^]sp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lisped (l[i^]spt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Lisping.] [OE. lispen, lipsen, AS. wlisp
stammering, lisping; akin to D. & OHG. lispen to lisp, G.
lispeln, Sw. l[aum]spa, Dan. lespe.]
1. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s
and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
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2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as
a child learning to talk.
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.
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3. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
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Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
--Drayton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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 .
[PJC]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lisp \Lisp\, v. t.
1. To pronounce with a lisp.
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2. 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.
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To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to
lisp the words unto them according as the babes and
children of that age might sound them again.
--Tyndale.
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3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or
confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lisp \Lisp\, n.
The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
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I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O!
Strephon, you are a dangerous creature." --Tatler.
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WordNet lisp
n 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 [syn: {list-processing
language}]
v : speak with a lisp

Moby Dictionary
aphonia , artificial voice , assibilate , assibilation , broken speech ,
broken tones , broken voice , buzz , childish treble , choked voice ,
cracked voice , croak , crow , drawl , dysarthria , dyslalia , dyslogia ,
dysphasia , dysphonia , dysphrasia , effervesce , effervescence ,
effervescing , falsetto , fizz , fizzle , fizzling , frication ,
frictional rustling , harshness , hawking voice , hiss , hissing ,
hoarseness , hush , hushing , idioglossia , idiolalia ,
impairment of speech , lisping , loss of voice , mince , muzzy speech ,
nasal tone , nasalization , quaver , rhonchus , shake , shush , shushing ,
sibilance , sibilate , sibilation , siffle , sigmatism , siss , sissing ,
sizz , sizzle , sizzling , sneeze , sneezing , sniff , sniffle , snore ,
snort , snuff , snuffle , speech defect , speech impediment , spit ,
splutter , sputter , squash , squelch , squish , sternutation , stertor ,
swish , talk incoherently , tremor , twang , wheeze , whish , whistle ,
whistling , white noise , whiz , whoosh , zip

LISP LISt Processor (LISP)

LISP Lots of Isolated Silly Parentheses (LISP, slang)

Jargon LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of
Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue, a language
based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental
data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa.
Invented by John McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is actually older
than any other HLL still in use except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has
undergone considerable adaptive radiation over the years; modern
variants are quite different in detail from the original LISP 1.5. The
dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP now shares the
throne with C. Its partisans claim it is the only language that is
truly beautiful. See languages of choice.

All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values;
this, together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to
Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that
"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".

One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example
that most newer languages, such as COBOL and Ada, are full of
unnecessary crocks. When the Right Thing has already been done once,
there is no justification for bogosity in newer languages.

FOLDOC Lisp

LISt Processing language.

(Or mythically "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses").
Artificial Intelligence's mother tongue, a symbolic,
functional, recursive language based on the ideas of
lambda-calculus, variable-length lists and trees as
fundamental data types and the interpretation of code as data
and vice-versa.

Data objects in Lisp are lists and atoms. Lists may contain
lists and atoms. Atoms are either numbers or symbols.
Programs in Lisp are themselves lists of symbols which can be
treated as data. Most implementations of Lisp allow functions
with side-effects but there is a core of Lisp which is
purely functional.

All Lisp functions and programs are expressions that return
values; this, together with the high memory use of Lisp, gave
rise to Alan Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar
Wilde quote) that "Lisp programmers know the value of
everything and the cost of nothing".

The original version was LISP 1, invented by John McCarthy
at MIT in the late 1950s. Lisp is
actually older than any other high level language still in
use except Fortran. Accordingly, it has undergone
considerable change over the years. Modern variants are quite
different in detail. The dominant HLL among hackers until
the early 1980s, Lisp now shares the throne with C. See
languages of choice.

One significant application for Lisp has been as a proof by
example that most newer languages, such as COBOL and Ada,
are full of unnecessary crocks. When the Right Thing has
already been done once, there is no justification for
bogosity in newer languages.

See also Association of Lisp Users, Common Lisp, {Franz
Lisp}, MacLisp, Portable Standard Lisp, Interlisp,
Scheme, ELisp, Kamin's interpreters.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-16)

FOLDOC *LISP

(StarLISP) A data-parallel extension of Common LISP for
the Connection Machine, uses "pvars".

{A *LISP simulator
(ftp://think.com/public/starsim-f19-sharfile)}.

E-mail: ,

.

[Cliff Lasser, Jeff Mincy, J.P. Massar, Thinking Machines
Corporation "The Essential *LISP Manual", TM Corp 1986].

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