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Definition of Lip reader
1. Noun. Someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lip Reader
Literary usage of Lip reader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1908)
"It is with motion alone that a skilled lip-reader has to deal, ... A skilled
lip-reader understands what is said without any conscious analysis of ..."
2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"Another deaf man says: "I care not who the lip-reader is, nor whence he comes,
... I am not much of a lip-reader, but I have met persons and have among my ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"No two people speak alike, any more than two people write alike, and a lip-reader
needs to become accustomed to your peculiarities of speech just as he ..."
4. The Müller-Walle Method of Lip-reading for the Deaf (Bruhn Lip-reading System) by Martha Emma Bruhn, Julius Müller-Walle (1915)
"Yet in order to become a skilful lip-reader, he must learn to watch, ...
This anticipation will prove, as every lip-reader has experienced, a decided help ..."
5. Lip-reading Principles and Practise: A Hand-book for Teachers and for Self by Edward Bartlett Nitchie (1919)
"The importance of training the visual memory is clear from the fact that often
the lip- reader will get the first part of a sentence from the last; that is, ..."
6. The Volta Review by Volta Bureau (U.S.), Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (1913)
"While a knowledge of sound formation and of the relationship between formation
and revelation is of little value to the lip-reader, it is of great value to ..."
7. The Muller-Walle Method of Lip-reading for the Deaf (Bruhn Lip-reading System). by Martha Emma Bruhn (1919)
"The earlier the lip-reader learns to choose a favorable position when trying ...
Of equal importance to the position in which the lip-reader must learn to ..."
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