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Definition of 'LISP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lisp
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th-sounds of thin and this, respectively.

2. lisp
any unconventional articulation of the sibilants, as the pronunciation of (s) and (z) with the tongue raised so that the breath is emitted laterally.

3. (v.i.) lisp
to pronounce or speak with a lisp.

4. (n.) LISP
a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial-intelligence applications.

Etymology: (1959; lis(t) p(rocessing))

Definition of 'LISP'

Princeton's WordNet

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

2. (verb) LISP, list-processing language
a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists

3. (verb) lisp
speak with a lisp

Definition of 'LISP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) LISP
the habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1

2. (verb) LISP
to pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children

3. (verb) LISP
to speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk

4. (verb) LISP
to speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid

5. (verb) LISP
to pronounce with a lisp

6. (verb) LISP
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

7. (verb) LISP
to speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason

Definitions of 'LISP'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. LISP
[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 has since shared 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

Translation of 'LISP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to say th for s or z because of being unable to pronounce these sounds correctly.
Afrikaans: lispel, sleeptong praat	Arabic: يَلْثَغ، يَنْطُق السّين ث	Bulgarian: фъфля
Brazilian: cecear	Czech: šišlat	German: lispeln
Danish: læspe	Greek: ψευδίζω	Spanish: cecear
Estonian: soselema	Farsi: نوک زبانی صحبت کردن	Finnish: lespata
French: zézayer	Hebrew: לְבַטֵא ס' וז' בִּשיבּוּש	Hindi: तुतलाना
Croatian: šušljanje, pogrešan izgov	Hungarian: selypít	Indonesian: pelat
Icelandic: vera smámæltur	Italian: (avere una pronuncia bles	Japanese: 舌もつれで話す
Korean: 혀짧은 소리로 발음하다	Lithuanian: švepliuoti	Latvian: šļupstēt
Malay: pelat menyebut huruf ``s'	Dutch: lispelen	Norwegian: lespe
Polish: seplenić	Persian: ،كلالت در تلفظ نوک زبانی	Pashto: په تلفظ كښى بندښت
Portuguese: ciciar	Romanian: a sâsâi	Russian: шепелявить
Slovak: šušľať	Slovenian: sesljati	Serbian: vrskati
Swedish: läspa	Thai: พูดไม่ชัด	Turkish: peltek konuşmak
Taiwanese: 說話大舌頭，口齒不清	Ukrainian: шепелявити	Urdu: تتلانا
Vietnamese: nói ngọng	Chinese: 咬舌儿，口齿不清
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