lip-read in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for lip-read in the English»French Dictionary

lip-read <pret, pp lip-read [-red]> [Brit ˈlɪpriːd, Am ˈlɪprid] VB intr

lip-read

lire sur les lèvres de quelqu'un

can you lip-read?

sais-tu lire sur les lèvres?

Translations for lip-read in the French»English Dictionary

I.lire [liʀ] N f

lire

lira

payer en lires

to pay in lire ou liras

II.lire [liʀ] VB trans

1. lire (déchiffrer):

lire mot, journal, auteur, langue

to read

lire qc à qn

to read sth to sb

apprendre à lire

to learn to read

elle sait lire

she can read

lire à voix haute ou à haute voix

to read aloud

lis la page 5 (gén)

read page 5

lis la page 5 (à voix haute)

read out page 5

lis la page 5 (en entier)

read through page 5

c'est un livre à lire/qu'il faut lire

it's a book worth reading/one ought to read

lire Platon dans le texte

to read Plato in the original

lire qc comme une critique

to interpret sth as a criticism

un auteur/magazine qui est très lu

a widely read author/magazine

au lieu de ‘il’ il fallait lire ‘elle’

for ‘he’ read ‘she’

‘lu et approuvé’

‘read and approved’

lire qc en diagonale

to skim through sth, scan sth

lire sur les lèvres de qn

to lip-read what sb is saying

dans l'espoir de vous lire bientôt

hoping to hear from you soon

2. lire:

lire MED, MUS radiographie, musique

to read

3. lire (en hi-fi):

lire also COMPUT

to read

4. lire (discerner):

lire avenir

to read

lire les cartes/lignes de la main

to read cards/palms

lire la haine dans les yeux/sur le visage de qn

to see hate written in sb's eyes/on sb's face

lire dans les pensées de qn

to read sb's mind

lire dans le cœur de qn

to see into sb's heart

III.lire [liʀ]

lire dans le jeu de qn

to see through sb

lire entre les lignes

to read between the lines

lire sur le visage de qn comme dans un livre

to read sb like a book

lip-read in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for lip-read in the English»French Dictionary

lip-read VB trans, intr

lip-read

lire sur les lèvres

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

As a child he lost his hearing due to disease, thus finding it necessary to lip-read from an early age.

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It is a common assumption that deaf people can lip-read.

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She couldn't lip-read me, and although she spoke, she also liked to sign.

www.bbc.co.uk

However, he eventually learned to communicate with others by lip-reading, and to speak a few words, though with great difficulty.

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If there's a goal, save, dive, lip-read profanity, or hocked sputum we should know about, let us know.

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Blind students learned various manual industries and deaf students learned lip-reading in addition to the usual public school curriculum.

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Back then, audiologists and speech-language pathologists would put emphasis on speech reading (lip-reading) auditory training, and would fit the soldiers with very primitive hearing aids.

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Without auditory input, a person with prelingual deafness is forced to acquire speech visually through lip-reading.

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Ballet became my safe bubble away from the stress of trying to lip-read at school and struggling to keep up.

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Then a neural network combining state-of-the-art image and speech recognition set to work to learn how to lip-read.

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