Also known as "speechreading", lip reading is a communication technique of understanding speech by watching a person's lip movements, facial expressions, and gestures, which can be enhanced by any residual hearing. It's a skill used by many people with hearing loss but also by the general public in noisy environments to aid comprehension. The technique is not foolproof, as many sounds look alike on the lips, and a complete understanding relies on context and other clues.
During the lecture, I noticed she was lip reading to keep up with the professor, especially when the classroom got really loud.
by Emotional Cruiser October 19, 2025
Get the lip readingmug. That.
#1: "Y'know, I figured out that figuring out the fact that the character limit is extremely long on Urban Dictionary so you use whatever you can to the point where it gets hard to read or maybe even off screen."
#2: "...What?"
#2: "...What?"
by anonymous July 28, 2023
Get the Figuring out the fact that the character limit is extremely long on Urban Dictionary so you use whatever you can to the point where it gets hard to read or maybe even off screenmug. When your in a class and you and your friends are not working at ALL, but you teacher thinks you are wroking.
WOW, Dude. We "hit with the reads" on our teacher and she never picked up on it. All class we never did any work.
by Drew Debree July 4, 2016
Get the hit with the readsmug. Reading in the definition of Video Games is like a sixth sense in the mind on a person, like you know exactly what they are about to do before the move happens and you've already thought to counteract. In simpler terms. It's similar to a prediction in the future.
by BestGuyJack February 14, 2021
Get the Readmug. .
by AddictedToAnAuditoru March 6, 2025
Get the 《¤》ask《¤》messenger《¤》add《¤》oak《¤》to《¤》read《¤》the《¤》horoscopes《¤》or《¤》tarotscope《¤》again《¤》mug. Interpretations of media that makes excuses for sexist/anti-lgbtq/racist themes by giving undue credit and nuance to authorial intent; especially as a way to give a pass to offensive writing in movies/books/etc you might enjoy.
"Zelda isn't actually a damsel in distress because she helps in defeating the final boss"
"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."
or
"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "
"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."
or
"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "
by smeefus August 27, 2019
Get the Left-readingmug. to have your read receipts on, and read the text message, without responding. purposefully ignoring a person and/or their message.
by pettygirl123 February 27, 2017
Get the left on the readsmug.