Noun: lipreading 'lip,ree-ding
- The skill of understanding speech by observing lip movements and facial expressions
"She relied on lipreading to understand the conversation in the noisy room"
- Interpret by lipreading; of deaf people
"Those words which were easy to lipread should be identified better as rhyming than those which were difficult to lip-read";
- lip-read, speech-read
Derived forms: lipreadings
Type of: perception, read, sensing
Encyclopedia: Lipreading
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