Lie
English
Verb
Lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay, past participle lain)
- (intransitive) To be in a horizontal position.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
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Noun
Lie (plural Lies)- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- (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)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Photos often lie.
- Hips don't lie.
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Noun
Lie (plural Lies)- A deliberately false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
- 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”),
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Finnish
Verb
lie
- (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.
- Se on missä lie.
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)
- dregs (of wine, of society)
Verb
Lie
- First-person singular indicative present of lier
- First-person singular subjunctive present of lier
- Third-person singular indicative present of lier
- Third-person singular subjunctive present of lier
- 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
- 咦: expression of surprise
Pinyin syllable
lie
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)
Swedish
Noun
Lie c.
- 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
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- English irregular verbs
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- French terms derived from Transalpine Gaulish
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Mandarin pinyin with diacritics
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Mandarin pinyin
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- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb indicative forms
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- Swedish nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
