to lipread
8.4
To understand what someone says by watching their lips
- verb
- /ˈlɪpˌrɛd/
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Examples
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It’s a lipreading AI.
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She learned to lipread so she could understand her friends better during conversations.
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With practice, he was able to lipread and follow what was being said in the noisy room.
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At the workshop, the instructor taught the participants how to lipread effectively in different situations.
Synonyms
to read lips
vsto lipread
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5.7
To understand what someone says by watching their lips
is the single-word verb form used instead of the two-word phrase
to lip-read
vsto lipread
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7.2
Understand what someone says by looking at their mouth
has identical meaning but is written without a hyphen in modern usage
9.1
To understand what someone says by watching their lips, face, and tongue movements
focuses on mouth movement only not on face or tongue cues
How Accurate
Surface Forms
lipread infinitive
lipreading present participle
lipreads third person singular
lipread past
lipread past participle
Morphology
Etymology
Lipread comes from the simple parts lip and read, literally 'to read' the movements of someone's mouth. So, to lipread is to understand what someone says by watching their lips rather than by hearing them.