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 Translation for 'lip-read' from English to French
VERB   to lip-read | lip-read | lip-read
lip-reading | lip-reads
SYNO to lip-read | to lipread | to speech-read
ling.
lire sur les lèvres de qn.
to lip-read what sb. is saying
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Translation for 'lip-read' from English to French

to lip-read what sb. is saying
lire sur les lèvres de qn.ling.
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Usage Examples English
  • Learning to lip read is very difficult because many sounds look the same on the lips.
  • During one Bledisloe Cup match he scored a try by barging through Fitzpatrick and then made a two fingered gesture to him, saying something which most TV watchers thought they could lip read.
  • Visemes can often be humorous, as in the phrase "elephant juice", which when lip-read appears identical to "I love you".
  • In 2013 Oaxaca hired deaf police officers to lip read conversations to uncover criminal conspiracies.
  • Signing was actively discouraged in schools by punishment, and deaf education emphasised teaching deaf children to learn to lip read and finger spell.

  • Leon pointed out that masks restrict communication and it is hard to lip read from two metres away (the required social distance).
  • Ollerenshaw became completely deaf at age eight and was taught to lip read.
  • He was inspired by his grandfather who had patiently taught his deaf son (Zerah’s uncle) to speak and lip-read proficiently.
  • From age six, Murray suffered a sever hearing loss and subsequently learned to lip read.
  • After learning to lip-read, she was employed as a secretary and later as an official by the Defence Department until her retirement in 1975.

  • Libby's mother, Sue, (Rachel Fielding) explains that Libby was found deaf at three years old despite having no deaf relatives, and that she can lip-read.
  • But she had learned to lip-read and with patience and hard work and help from the local school learned to speak clearly.
  • There is strong opposition within Deaf communities to the oralist method of teaching deaf children to speak and lip read with limited or no use of sign language in the classroom.
  • As a child he lost his hearing due to disease, thus finding it necessary to lip-read from an early age.
  • Applying this insight to seen speech, some words in the language can be unambiguously lip-read even when they contain few visemes - simply because no other words could possibly 'fit'.

  • 47 focused on writing and lip-reading skills and discouraged sign language, she picked it up from her peers.
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