lip reading
Noun
Meaning
lip reading (uncountable)
Alternative spelling of lipreading
lip-reading (uncountable)
Alternative form of lipreading
Alternative names
lip-reading
Examples
And Cate Blanchett joked that the group of stars now communicates through "lip reading and telepathy."
Communication in the engine room is therefore by hand signals and lip-reading, and good teamwork often stands in place of any communication at all.
In addition, if your friend is lip reading, they will have difficulty identifying exaggerated pronunciations.
While it’s true that lip reading can be a useful skill for Deaf or hard-of-hearing people to have, it is not a necessary one.
Although language should be kept simple and short, keeping context is important because certain homophonous words are difficult to distinguish by lip-reading.
They are also seen for silent articulation (mouthing), where the expected phonetic transcription is derived from lip-reading, and with periods to indicate silent pauses, for example (.