Usually means: Interpreting speech by watching lips.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word lip-reading:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lip-reading: Merriam-Webster
  2. lip-reading, lip-reading: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Lip-reading, lip-reading: Wordnik
  4. lip-reading: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. lip-reading: Dictionary.com
  6. lip-reading: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. lip-reading: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lip-reading: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lip-reading: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lip-reading: Medical dictionary

(Note: See lip-read as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lip-reading)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of lipreading [The act of reading lips.]

Similar:
palmreading, non-labial, labio-velar, analingus, glottaling, audiotyping, tongues speaker, Lusophone, prophecying, linguopalatal, more...

Opposite:
speaking, hearing, listening

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Similar:
palmreading, non-labial, labio-velar, analingus, glottaling, audiotyping, tongues speaker, Lusophone, prophecying, linguopalatal, more...

Opposite:
speaking, hearing, listening



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