English words for 'The act of lip-syncing.'
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verb
noun
- (music, singing) The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.
- combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of their speech
verb
noun
- A small bag for carrying money.
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
- a small bag for carrying money
- a sum of money offered as a prize
noun
noun
verb
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
- change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- express with a smile
- (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
- (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
- (transitive) To express by smiling.
noun
- a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
- (figurative) Favour; propitious regard.
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
noun
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
verb
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- kiss lightly
- deliver a hard blow to
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- have an element suggestive (of something)
adv
noun
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
noun
- The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
- The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
- In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
- A rounded surface; a curve.
- The numerical value obtained by this process.
- (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
noun
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- a disdainful grimace
- catfish common in eastern United States
noun
verb
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
noun
verb
noun
- the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- a light glancing touch
- a cookie made of egg whites and sugar
- any of several bite-sized candies
- A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
- (aviation) A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
- An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
- A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
verb
- touch lightly or gently
- touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
- (reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
noun
- the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
- A kiss.
- (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
- The action of kissing.
- A close contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
verb
noun
- (music, singing) The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.
- combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of their speech
noun
noun
noun
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
noun
- The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
- The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
- In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
- A rounded surface; a curve.
- The numerical value obtained by this process.
- (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
adj
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- a light glancing touch
- a cookie made of egg whites and sugar
- any of several bite-sized candies
- A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
- (aviation) A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
- An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
- A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
verb
- touch lightly or gently
- touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
- (reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
noun
- the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
- A kiss.
- (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
- The action of kissing.
- A close contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
verb
noun
- (music, singing) The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.
- combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of their speech
verb
noun
- A small bag for carrying money.
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
- a small bag for carrying money
- a sum of money offered as a prize
verb
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
- change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
- express with a smile
- (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
- (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
- (transitive) To express by smiling.
noun
- a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
- (figurative) Favour; propitious regard.
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
verb
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- kiss lightly
- deliver a hard blow to
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- have an element suggestive (of something)
adv
noun
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
verb
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
noun
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- a disdainful grimace
- catfish common in eastern United States
verb
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot