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lisp

  [lisp]
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–noun
1. a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th-sounds of thin and this, respectively.
2. Phonetics. any unconventional articulation of the sibilants, as the pronunciation of s and z with the tongue between the teeth (lingual protrusion lisp), close to or touching the upper front teeth (dental lisp), or raised so that the breath is emitted laterally (lateral lisp).
3. the act, habit, or sound of lisping.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. to pronounce or speak with a lisp.
5. to speak imperfectly, esp. in a childish manner.
Origin:
bef. 1100; ME wlispen, lipsen, OE āwlyspian; akin to D lisp(el)en, G lispeln, Norw leipsa

Related forms:
lisper, noun
lisp⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

LISP

  [lisp]
–noun Computers.
a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.
Origin:
lis(t) p(rocessing)
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lisp   (lĭsp)   
n.  

  1. A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).

  2. A sound of or like a lisp: "The carpenter['s] . . . plane whistles its wild ascending lisp" (Walt Whitman).

v.   lisped, lisp·ing, lisps

v.   intr.

  1. To speak with a lisp.

  2. To speak imperfectly, as a child does.

v.   tr.
To pronounce with a lisp.

[From Middle English lispen, to lisp, from Old English -wlyspian (in āwlyspian, to lisp), from wlisp, lisping.]
lisp'er n.
LISP   (lĭsp)   
n.  A programming language that processes lists. It is widely used in artificial intelligence research.

[lis(t) p(rocessing).]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1lisp
Pronunciation: 'lisp
Function: intransitive verb
1 : to pronounce the sibilants s and z imperfectly especially by givingthem the sounds h and th
2 : to speak with a lisp lisp transitive senses
: to utter with a lisp

Main Entry: 2lisp
Function: noun
: a speech defect or affectation characterized by lisping
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

lisp (lĭsp)
n.
A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th). v. lisped, lisp·ing, lisps
To speak with a lisp.

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Computing Dictionary

Lisp language
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.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-04-16)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
LISP
List Processing computer language
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