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lip-reading

noun

  1. a method used by deaf people to comprehend spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips Also calledspeech-reading
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlip-ˌreader, noun
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Example Sentences

That's what The Twilight Saga: Eclipse sounds like when it's up to the clever Bad Lip Reading folks.

In the early 80s, oralism (an educational technique with heavy emphasis on lip-reading and speech) was quite popular.

You might change your mind after watching this hysterical lip-reading of New Moon.

Beneath a light in the hall Gard told the deaf girl of the situation, for lip reading needs light.

My progress in lip-reading and speech was not what my teachers and I had hoped and expected it would be.

Mamise wished that she had studied lip-reading to get the details.

In the oral method articulation and lip-reading are chiefly relied upon; reading and writing are also adopted.

Lip-reading is, to the deaf, sign-reading with the disadvantage of being both microscopic and partially hidden.

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