Lie

Verb

 * 1)  To be in a horizontal position.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  To be placed or situated.
 * 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.
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * a lie has no legs
 * let sleeping dogs lie
 * lie back
 * lie by
 * lie doggo
 * lie down
 * lie in


 * lie-in
 * lie in wait
 * lie low
 * lie upon
 * lie with
 * therein lies the rub
 * you've made your bed, now lie in it

Related terms

 * lees
 * lier

Noun

 * 1)  The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
 * 2)  The position of a fetus in the womb.

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To convey a false image or impression.
 * Photos often lie.
 * Hips don't lie.

Derived terms

 * lie through one's teeth

Related terms

 * liar

Noun

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

Derived terms

 * barefaced lie
 * belie
 * give lie to
 * I tell a lie
 * lie detector
 * sex, lies and videotape
 * white lie

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

Etymology 1
licgan:, from, from. Cognate with Danish ligge:, Dutch liggen:, German liegen:, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan), Swedish ligga:; and with Latin lectus:, Irish luighe:, Russian лежать:.

The noun lie#Noun: in golf and medicine is from verb.

Etymology 2
From lien:, from  leogan:, from, from. Cognate with liegen:,  lügen:,  lyve:,  ljuga:,  лъжа:.

Etymology 3
From, from lyge:, from , from. Cognate with luggi:,  lugi:,  løgn:,  лъжа:,

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: رقد
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 躺
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: mlɔ anyi
 * Filipino: humiga
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: estar deitado
 * German:
 * Greek: κείτομαι (kítome)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पड़ना, पड़ा होना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Liggja
 * Ido: jacar
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: jacer


 * Irish:
 * Italian: essere sdraiato, essere disteso, giacere
 * Japanese: 横になる
 * Korean: 놓이다
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gulēt
 * Luxembourgish: leien
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: കിടക്കുക (kitakkuka)
 * Navajo: sitą́ (a slender stiff object lies)
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: sta culcat,, a sta întins, a sta orizontal
 * Romansch: giaschair
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: laigh
 * Slovak: ležať
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:, estar echado, , estar tumbado
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: پڑنا


 * Armenian: գտնվել
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, gelegen zijn
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: se trouver
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Macedonian: се простира, се протега


 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: licġan
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a fi situat, a se găsi
 * Russian: располагаться
 * Spanish: estar ubicado
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Dutch: ligging, terreinligging


 * Dutch: ligging
 * German: Kindslage


 * Norwegian: leie

Verb

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: كذب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: хлусіць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: mentir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 說謊, 说谎
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: valetama
 * Ewe: da alakpa, ka aʋatso
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: झूठ बोलना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: mentiar
 * Indonesian:
 * bohong, berbohong, membohongi
 * dusta, berdusta, mendustai


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 嘘を吐く
 * Korean: 거짓말하다
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: melot
 * Lithuanian: meluoti
 * Luxembourgish: léien
 * Macedonian: лаже
 * Malayalam: നുണ (nuNa), കള്ളം (kaLLam)
 * Northern Sami: gielistit
 * Norwegian: lyve, ljuge
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish:, łgać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  брехать
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: yalan söylemek
 * Ukrainian: брехати

Noun

 * Afrikaans: leuen
 * Arabic: كذب, كذبة
 * Moroccan: (kdba)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: gezur
 * Belarusian: хлусьня
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: mentida
 * Cebuano: bakak
 * Chechen: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 謊言, 谎言,  假話,  假话
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: alakpadada, aʋatsokaka
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * German:
 * Greek: ψέμμα (psema)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: ulbod
 * Indonesian: bohong, kebohongan
 * Interlingua: mendacio, mentita
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, , frottola, baggianata, fola, balla, fandonia
 * Japanese:, 虚言
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:, ,
 * Kazakh: жалған, өтірік


 * Khakas: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, калп,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: meli
 * Luxembourgish: Ligen
 * Macedonian: лага
 * Marathi: खोट (khota)
 * Mongolian: худал
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian: دروغ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, неправда, , , враки , брехня
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лаж
 * Roman: laž
 * Shor:
 * Slovak:, lož
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: leshano
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: yalğan, yalğanlıq
 * Thai: คำโกหก, โกหก, กุ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýalan
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: брехня
 * Urdu: جھوٹ
 * Uzbek: yolgʻon
 * Vietnamese: nói dối
 * Waray: kaga'
 * Yakut:

Anagrams

 * Eli, ile, lei

Verb
lie


 * Se on missä lie.
 * It's somewhere. / I wonder where it is.
 * Tai mitä lie ovatkaan
 * Or whatever they are.
 * Or whatever they are.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

 * eli, lei

Noun

 * 1) dregs (of wine, of society)

Etymology
Probably from *undefined:, from.

Anagrams

 * île

Pinyin

 * 1) 咦: expression of surprise

Pinyin syllable
lie



Noun

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

Etymology
Old Swedish līe, lē, from lé:, from, from.