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lip-sync en · VERB

Etymology

From lip sync.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:singing, transitive) To move the lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.
    • Tolokonnikova is one of two members of the punk group Pussy Riot who are serving two-year sentences for lip-syncing and playing air guitar for 40 seconds in a peaceful protest in the largest Moscow cathedral. 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2013:
    • There was a great scandal when it was discovered the singer had been only lip-syncing.
    • She lip-synced to her own recording during the show because of her laryngitis.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lip sync alternative lexicographic
lip-synced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lip-synced Tense=Past lexicographic
lipsynch alternative lexicographic
lip-synch alternative lexicographic
lip-syncing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lip-syncs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lip-synching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lip-synched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lip-synched Tense=Past lexicographic
lipsync alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

mime

Deriveds

lip-syncer

Translations (27)

no leppesynkronisering (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · pt fazer playback (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · de lippensynchron singen (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · ja リップシンクする (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · fi laulaa playbackina (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · pl śpiewać z playbacku (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · fr chanter en playback (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · cmn 對嘴 /对嘴 (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · vi hát nhép (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · it cantare in playback (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · fr faire du playback (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · az fonoqramla oxumaq (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · nl lippen (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · ja 口パクする (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · az fonoqram oxumaq (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · cmn 咪嘴 (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · sv mima (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · cmn 對口型 /对口型 (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · nl playbacken (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · uk виконува́ти під фоногра́му (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · fi huulisynkata (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · cmn 假唱 (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · es hacer playback (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · sv läppsynka (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · hu tátog (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · fi liikutella huuliaan (to move lips in synchronization with sounds) · ru исполня́ть под фоногра́мму (to move lips in synchronization with sounds)