Lie

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English

Verb

Lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay, past participle lain)

  1. (intransitive) To be in a horizontal position.
  2. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
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Noun

Lie (plural Lies)
  1. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  2. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.

Verb

Lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past and past participle lied)

  1. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally.
    When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
    If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
  2. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
    Photos often lie.
    Hips don't lie.

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Noun

Lie (plural Lies)
  1. A deliberately false statement; an intentional falsehood.
    I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
  2. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth

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Adjectives for Lie

glittering; vicious; monkey-faced; vivid; spectral; glib; painted; plausible; sin-born; wanton; endless; improbable; consoling; intolerable; libelous; deadliest; drowsing; diplomatic; ungentlemanly; organized; conventional; filthy; original; convincing; blaspheming; preposterous; gracious; sustained; surpliced; costly; pious; calm; quaint; shameless; damnable; dumb; helpless; glorious; puny; rotten; absurd; magnificent; unnumbered; iniquitous; measured; poisonous; deliberate; purchased.

Verbs for Lie

acknowledge—; censure—; condemn—; condone—; confess to—; decry—; detect—; evolve—; promulgate—; propagate—; reject—; rend—; reveal—; spill—s; uncover —; utter—; —blackens; —cheats; —cloaks; —defrauds; —dishonors; —falsifies; —fetters; —frees; —perplexes; —swindles.

Adverbs for Lie

nervelessly; slothfully; smoothly; perversely; atrociously; malignly; glibly; supinely; profusely; portentously; outrageously; mutely; composedly; plausibly; wantonly; llbelously; prepoaterously; shamelessly; iniquitously.

Thesaurus

aim, aspect, attitude, azimuth, be found, be located, be met with, be present, be situated, be there, be untruthful, bearing, bearings, beguile, bent, blague, bouncer, canard, carry, celestial navigation, cheat, cock-and-bull story, course, cover, crawl, current, dead reckoning, deceitfulness, deceive, delude, direction, direction line, dishonesty, distort, distortion, draw the longbow, drift, dwell in, encompass, environ, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, exaggeration, exist, exposure, extend, fable, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, fix, flam, flimflam, forgery, fraudulence, frontage, ghost story, go, go out, grovel, half-truth, heading, helmsmanship, hold, inaccuracy, inclination, indwell, inhere, inveracity, lay, legal fiction, libel, lie athwart, lie down, lie flat, lie flatly, lie in, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, little white lie, loll, lounge, mendacity, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresentation, misstate, misstatement, myth, navigation, occur, orientation, palter, perjury, pilotage, piloting, pious fiction, point, position, position line, prevaricate, prevarication, quarter, radio bearing, range, reach, reach out, recline, remain, repose, reside, rest, ride, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, run, set, shift, shift about, slight stretching, song and dance, span, speak falsely, sprawl, spread, stand, steerage, steering, story, straddle, stretch, stretch out, stretch the truth, surround, sweep, take in, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, tendency, tenor, thrust out, track, trend, trumped-up story, untruth, way, white lie, yarn

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Old English licgan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjanan, from Proto-Indo-European *legh-. Cognate with Danish ligge, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan), Swedish ligga; and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luighe, Russian лежать.

The noun lie (“position”) in golf and medicine is from verb.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-Germanic *leuganan (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *leugh- (“to lie, swear, bemoan”). Cognate with Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (“to lie”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old English lyġe (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *leugh- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lugī (German Lüge, “a lie”), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (“а lie”),

Translations

Verb

be in horizontal position
be situated

Noun

golf term
position of fetus

Verb

tell an intentional untruth

Noun

untruth

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Finnish

Verb

lie

  1. (nonstandard) singular potential present form of olla
    Se on missä lie.
    It's somewhere. / I wonder where it is.
    Tai mitä lie ovatkaan
    Or whatever they are.

Notes

  • This form is used mostly in the expression missä lie.

Synonyms

  • (3rd-pers. sg. potent. pres. of olla; standard) lienee

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French

Noun

Lie f. (plural Lies)

  1. dregs (of wine, of society)

Verb

Lie

  1. First-person singular indicative present of lier
  2. First-person singular subjunctive present of lier
  3. Third-person singular indicative present of lier
  4. Third-person singular subjunctive present of lier
  5. Second-person singular imperative present of lier

Etymology

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *liga (“silt, sediment”), from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (“to lie, to lay”).

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Mandarin

Pinyin

Lie (form of lie0 or lie5)

  1. 咦: expression of surprise

Pinyin syllable

lie

  1. Nonstandard spelling of liē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of liě.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of liè.

Notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Spanish

Verb

Lie (infinitive liar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of liar.

Swedish

Noun

Lie c.

  1. scythe; an instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like.

Etymology

Old Swedish līe, lē, from Old Norse lé, from Proto-Germanic *lewan, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /liːɛ/

Declension

Declension of Lie
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Lie lien liar liarna
genitive Lies liens liars liarnas
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