Definition of Lisp. Meaning of Lisp. Synonyms of Lisp

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Definition of Lisp

Lisp
Lisp Lisp, v. t. 1. To pronounce with a lisp. 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. 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. 3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
Lisp
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["a]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. 2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope. 3. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt. --Drayton.
Lisp
Lisp Lisp, n. The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1. I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, ``O! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature.' --Tatler.

Meaning of Lisp from wikipedia

- Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized...
- A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants ([s], [z], [ts], [dz], [ʃ], [ʒ], [t͡ʃ], [d͡ʒ]). These misarticulations often result...
- Technology (MIT) Lisp machines. Lisp Machine Lisp was also the Lisp dialect with the most influence on the design of Common Lisp. Lisp Machine Lisp branched into...
- work on diverse successors to MacLisp: Lisp Machine Lisp (aka ZetaLisp), ****e Lisp, NIL and S-1 Lisp. Common Lisp sought to unify, standardise, and...
- Look up lisp or Lisp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lisp is a type of speech impediment. Lisp or LISP may also refer to: Lisp (programming language)...
- Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support...
- Le Lisp (also Le_Lisp and Le-Lisp) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. It was developed at the French Institute for Research in...
- Emacs Lisp is a Lisp dialect made for Emacs. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written...
- Scheme is a dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages. Scheme was created during the 1970s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
- *Lisp (or StarLisp) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. It was conceived of in 1985 by two employees of the Thinking Machines Corporation...