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Definition: Lie |
LieNoun1. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth. 2. Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968). 3. Position or manner in which something is situated. Verb1. Be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. 2. Be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf". 3. Originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country". 4. Be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant". 5. Tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29". 6. Have a place in relation to something else: "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies". 7. Assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | LiE A symbolic mathematics package aimed at Lie groups. ["LiE, a Package for Lie Group Computations", M.A.A. van Leeuwen et al, in Computer Algebra Nederland, 1992 (ISBN 90-741160-02-7)]. (1994-10-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
19th Century Satire | A very poor substitute for the truth but the only one discovered up to date. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Lie an intentional violation of the truth. Lies are emphatically condemned in Scripture (John 8:44; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10; Rev. 21:27; 22:15). Mention is made of the lies told by good men, as by Abraham (Gen. 12:12, 13; 20:2), Isaac (26:7), and Jacob (27:24); also by the Hebrew midwives (Ex. 1:15-19), by Michal (1 Sam. 19:14), and by David (1 Sam. 20:6). (See ANANIAS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A)the direction of natural fall of a tree; b)the direction in which a tree actually falls. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Lie (Anglo-Saxon, lige, a falsehood.) Father of lies. Satan (John viii. 44). The greatest lie. The four P's (a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Poticary, and a Pedlar) disputed as to which could tell the greatest lie. The Palmer said he had never seen a woman out of patience; whereupon the other three P's threw up the sponge, saying such a falsehood could not possibly be outdone. (Heywood: The Four P's.) White lies. (See White.) Lie (Anglo-Saxon, licgan, to `bide or rest; but lie, to deceive, is the Anglo-Saxon verb leog-an.) "Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee This is part of Dr. Evan's epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh, the comic poet, herald, and architect. The "heavy loads" referred to were Blenheim, Greenwich Hospital (which he finished), Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and other massive buildings. (1666-1726.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Scot. The line, direction, or bearing; as of a vein, lode, or fault b. Pass-by; shunt; a storage or bypass arrangement in haulage track. Also spelled lye. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Lie, Lay. The verbs lie and lay are often confounded, even by intelligent persons. Lie does not take an object. We cannot lie a thing. It is therefore intransitive. Lay, which means to place in position, requires an object. We lay a book on a table, or bricks on the wall. It is therefore transitive. The principal parts of the first verb are lie, lay, lain; and of the second, lay, laid, laid. The word lay is found in both, and this is, in part, accountable for the confusion. The most frequent errors result from using laid, the past tense form of the transitive verb, when the word lay, the past tense form of the intransitive verb, should be used. The ear naturally expects the usual past tense ending of the d or t sound, and as that is absent in the past tense of lie, the past tense form of the other verb is substituted. For the same reason the participle form laid is often incorrectly used for lain. "He told me to lie down, and I lay down," not laid down. "I told him to lay the book down, and he laid it down." "The ship lay at anchor." "They lay by during the storm." "The book is lying on the shelf." "He lay on the ground and took cold." "They lay in ambush." "Lie low or he will discover you." "The goods are still lying on his hands." "Time lay heavily on their hands." "We must lie over at the next station." "A motion was made that the resolution lie on the table." "Now I lie down to sleep." "Now I lay me down to sleep." The foregoing sentences illustrate the correct usage of these confusing verbs. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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The Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495, one of several roads sharing that designation) extends the length of Long Island. It begins in New York City, at the eastern end of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and runs through Queens and into Nassau and Suffolk counties, ending just before the "fish-tail" (where the island splits into northern and southern forks). Smaller highways continue on from the end of the LIE to Greenport on the North Fork and past the Hamptons to Montauk on the South Fork. Cynics have suggested that the acronym is appropriate, in that the term "expressway" is a lie.In 1999, an HOV lane was added from Deer Park to (near) Hicksville. A movie called "L.I.E." was also made.
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To lie is to make statements that are untrue, whether or not the falsity of such statements is known by the speaker. A lie can be a genuine falsehood or a selective truth, a lie by omission, or even the truth if the intention is to deceive or to cause an action not in the listener's interests.
Morality of lying
Lying is against the moral standards of many people and is specifically prohibited as a sin in many religions. Ethical traditions and philosopers are divided over whether a lie is ever allowable but are generally opposed - Aristotle said no, Plato said yes, Saint Augustine said no, Kant said no.
Lying in a way that escalates rather than de-escalates a conflict is usually considered the worst sin.
A liar is a person who is known to have a tendency to tell lies. People's tolerance for liars is generally very small, and it is often only necessary to be caught lying once to be labelled as a liar and not trusted again. This is of course moderated by the importance of the matter being lied about.
Paradoxically, a big lie is often easier to get people to believe, and more difficult for them to challenge even when facts support it. Propaganda is often based on choosing some very large but comfortable lie which is hard to challenge for social status or other reasons - and spreading this throughout a whole society.
Etiquette of lying
Etiquette is largely concerned with questions of lying, blaming and hypocrisy - things often decried in ethics but of great utility in society:
The moral reasons to tolerate lies have mostly to do with avoiding conflict. An ethical code will often specify when the truth is required, and when not. In courtrooms, for instance, the adversarial process and standard of evidence that applies restricts questions so that the need for a witness to lie is reduced - thus the truth on the matter at hand is supposed to be more easily revealed.
The need to sometimes lie is recognized in the term white lie (or officious lie), where the lie is harmless, and there are circumstances where there is an expectation to be less than totally honest through necessity or pragmatism. Lies can be divided into classes - injurious or malicious, officious, and jocose, of which only the first class is serious (Catholicism classes the first as a mortal sin but also condemns the others as venial).
Paradox of lying
Lying is the subject of many paradoxes, the most famous one being known as the liar paradox, commonly expressed as "This sentence is a lie," or "This sentence is false." The so-called Epimenides paradox -- "All Cretans are liars," as stated by Epimenides the Cretan -- is a forerunner of this, though its status as a paradox is disputed. A class of related logic puzzles are known as knights and knaves, in which the goal is to determine who of a group of people is lying and who is telling the truth.
Much ethical dilemma is based on related ethical paradox on issues of lying. Some famous ones include the question of whether anyone, hiding refugees from an oppressive and racist government, might owe the truth to an official who comes asking where they are.
Psychology of lying
The capacity of hominids to lie is noted early and nearly universally in human development and language studies with Great Apes. One famous lie by the latter was when Koko the Gorilla, confronted by her handlers after a tantrum in which she had literally torn a steel sink out of its moorings, signed in American Sign Language, "cat did it", pointing at her tiny kitten. It is unclear if this was a joke or a genuine attempt at blaming her tiny pet.
Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the theory of mind which people employ to simulate another's reaction to their story and determine if a lie will be believable. The most commonly cited milestone in the rising of this, what is known as Machiavellian intelligence, is at the human age of about four and a half years, when children begin to be able to lie convincingly. Before this, they seem simply unable to comprehend that anyone doesn't see the same view of events that they do - and seem to assume that there is only one point of view - their own - that must be integrated into any given story.
Sociology and linguistics of lying
Lying and blaming are so basic to society that it is hard to formally study them. George Lakoff, in criticizing some claims of George W. Bush made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, notes that "Are they lies - or are they merely exaggerations, misleading statements, mistakes, rhetorical excesses and so on. Linguists study such matters. The most startling finding is that, in considering whether a statement is a lie, the least important consideration for most people is whether it is true! The more important considerations are, Did he believe it? Did he intend to deceive? Was he trying to gain some advantage or to harm someone else? Is it a serious matter, or a trivial one? Is it "just" a matter of political rhetoric? Most people will grant that, even if the statement happened to be false, if he believed it, wasn't trying to deceive, and was not trying to gain advantage or harm any one, then there was no lie. If it was a lie in the service of a good cause, then it was a white lie. If it was based on faulty information, then it was an honest mistake. If it was just there for emphasis, then it was an exaggeration."
"These have been among the administration's defenses. The good cause: liberating Iraq. The faulty information: from the CIA. The emphasis: enthusiasm for a great cause. Even though there is evidence that the President and his advisers knew the information was false, they can deflect the use of the L-word. The falsehoods have been revealed and they, in themselves, do not matter much to most people."
The philosopher Leo Strauss, who had a major influence on many of the figures in the Project for a New American Century who dominated the administration during this period, stressed the necessity of lying in order to conceal a strategic position, or to aid diplomacy. So did earlier figures in political philosophy back to Niccolo Machiavelli.
It seems extremely unlikely that lies will ever be entirely eliminated from politics or diplomacy, just as they cannot be removed from the warfare that these activities are, ultimately, supposed to help pre-empt.
Lies and trust
One reason that lying may persist as a strategy in social settings is that it is not the comparison of the facts against some abstract notion of truth, but rather, the assessment of whether or not a betrayal of trust has occurred, that determines the response to a lie.
In the case of the Iraq war, for instance, the fact that lies escalated a conflict may have made it a quite serious breach of trust and betrayal of those who would suffer in that conflict. However, anyone who accepts as true the assertion that the regime in place was an inevitable threat to those who perished fighting it, or whose lives are at risk in the aftermath of the invasion, would be far less likely to consider escalating the conflict at the most convenient time to be any kind of betrayal. The perspective of the common sense conservative quite often relies on this kind of assumption of certainty. But if conflicts that are to be escalated are chosen due to some ideology, it is hard to see how this differs from simple might makes right logic.
See also: The Boy who cried Wolf, Prisoner's dilemma
Lie or lie down also means to rest horizontally on a surface, such as a bed. See Human positions.
Lie (pronounced as "Lee") is also a family name. Notable persons with this lastname including Sophus Lie, the founder of Lie algebra.
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Lie is an album by Charles Manson. Recorded on August 8, 1968, its distribution began during the Manson murder trial.
Songs List
Look At Your Game, Girl
Ego
Mechanical Man
People Say I'm No Good
Home Is Where You're Happy
Arkansas
I'll Never Say Never To Always
Garbage Dump
Don't Do Anything Illegal
Sick City
Cease To Exist
Big Iron Door
I Once Knew A Man
Eyes Of A Dreamer"Cease To Exist" had been previously recorded by the Beach Boys under the name "Never Learn Not To Love", and appears on their 1969 album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds Over The Mountain". The single gives songwriting credit to Manson and Dennis Wilson. Manson is not given co-writing credit on the album.
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In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced "lee", named after Sophus Lie) is an analytic real or complex manifold that is also a group such that the group operations multiplication and inversion are analytic maps. Lie groups are important in mathematical analysis, physics and geometry because they serve to describe the symmetry of analytical structures. They were introduced by Sophus Lie in 1870 in order to study symmetries of differential equations.
While the Euclidean space Rn is a real Lie group (with ordinary vector addition as the group operation), more typical examples are groups of invertible matrices (under matrix multiplication), for instance the group SO(3) of all rotations in 3-dimensional space. See below for a more complete list of examples.
Types of Lie groups
One classifies Lie groups regarding their algebraic properties (simple, semisimple, solvable, nilpotent, abelian), their connectedness (connected or simply connected) and their compactness.
Homomorphisms and isomorphisms
If G and H are Lie groups (both real or both complex), then a Lie-group-homomorphism f : G -> H is a group homomorphism which is also an analytic map. (One can show that it is equivalent to require that f only be continuous.) The composition of two such homomorphisms is again a homomorphism, and the class of all (real or complex) Lie groups, together with these morphisms, forms a category. The two Lie groups are called isomorphic if there exists a bijective homomorphism between them whose inverse is also a homomorphism. Isomorphic Lie groups do not need to be distinguished for all practical purposes; they only differ in the notation of their elements.
Lie group Description Remarks Lie algebra Description dim/R Rn Euclidean space with addition abelian, simply connected, not compact Rn the Lie bracket is zero n R× nonzero real numbers with multiplication abelian, not connected, not compact R the Lie bracket is zero 1 R>0 positive real numbers with multiplication abelian, simply connected, not compact R the Lie bracket is zero 1 S1 = R/Z complex numbers of absolute value 1, with multiplication abelian, connected, not simply connected, compact R the Lie bracket is zero 1 H× non-zero quaternions with multiplication simply connected, not compact H quaternions, with Lie bracket the commutator 4 S3 quaternions of absolute value 1, with multiplication simply connected, compact, simple and semi-simple, isomorphic to SU(2) and to Spin(3) R3 real 3-vectors, with Lie bracket the cross product; isomorphic to the quaternions with zero real part, with Lie bracket the commutator; also isomorphic to su(2) and to so(3) 3 GL(n,R) general linear group: invertible n-by-n real matrices not connected, not compact M(n,R) n-by-n matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n2 GL+(n,R) n-by-n real matrices with positive determinant simply connected, not compact M(n,R) n-by-n matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n2 SL(n,R) special linear group: real matrices with determinant 1 simply connected, not compact if n>1 sl(n,R) square matrices with trace 0, with Lie bracket the commutator n2-1 O(n,R) orthogonal group: real orthogonal matrices not connected, compact so(n,R) skew-symmetric square real matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator; so(3,R) is isomorphic to su(2) and to R3 with the cross product n(n-1)/2 SO(n,R) special orthogonal group: real orthogonal matrices with determinant 1 connected, compact, for n≥ 2: not simply connected, for n=3 and n≥5: simple and semisimple so(n,R) skew-symmetric square real matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n(n-1)/2 Spin(n) spinor group simply connected, compact, for n=3 and n≥5: simple and semisimple so(n,R) skew-symmetric square real matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n(n-1)/2 U(n) unitary group: complex unitary n-by-n matrices isomorphic to S1 for n=1; simply connected and compact for n>1. Note: this is not a complex Lie group/algebra u(n) square complex matrices A satisfying A = -A*, with Lie bracket the commutator n2 SU(n) special unitary group: complex unitary n-by-n matrices with determinant 1 simply connected, compact, for n≥2: simple and semisimple. Note: this is not a complex Lie group/algebra su(n) square complex matrices A with trace 0 satisfying A = -A*, with Lie bracket the commutator n2-1
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List of complex Lie groups and their Lie algebras
The dimensions given are dimensions over C. Note that every complex Lie group/algebra can also be viewed as a real Lie group/algebra of twice the dimension.
Lie group Description Remarks Lie algebra Description dim/C Cn group operation is addition abelian, simply connected, not compact Cn the Lie bracket is zero n C× nonzero complex numbers with multiplication abelian, simply connected, not compact C the Lie bracket is zero 1 GL(n,C) general linear group: invertible n-by-n complex matrices simply connected, not compact, for n=1: isomorphic to C× M(n,C) n-by-n matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n2 SL(n,C) special linear group: complex matrices with determinant 1 simple, semisimple, simply connected, for n≥2: not compact sl(n,C) square matrices with trace 0, with Lie bracket the commutator n2-1 O(n,C) orthogonal group: complex orthogonal matrices not connected, for n≥2: not compact so(n,C) skew-symmetric square complex matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n(n-1)/2 SO(n,C) special orthogonal group: complex orthogonal matrices with determinant 1 simply connected, for n≥2: not compact, for n=3 and n≥5: simple and semisimple so(n,C) skew-symmetric square complex matrices, with Lie bracket the commutator n(n-1)/2
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Alternative definition
Sometimes, real Lie groups are defined as topological manifolds with continuous group operations; this definition is equivalent to our definition given above. This is the content of Hilbert's fifth problem. The precise statement, proven by Gleason, Montgomery and Zippin in the 1950s, is as follows: If G is a topological manifold with continuous group operations, then there exists exactly one differentiable structure on G which turns it into a Lie group in our sense.
Representations of Lie groups/algebras
See Representations of Lie groups/algebras.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lie group."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LIE | English | Liver inducibility element | Medicine |
LIE | French | Principauté de Liechtenstein | Geography, Law |
LIE | German | Fürstentum Liechtenstein | Geography, Law |
LIE | Italian | Principato di Liechtenstein | Geography, Law |
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Synonyms: LieSynonyms: prevarication (n), belong (v), consist (v), dwell (v), lie down (v), lie in (v), rest (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: arise (v), sit (v), stand (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Mockery; (imitation); copy; counterfeit, sham, make-believe, forgery, fraud; lie; "a delusion a mockery and a snare", hollow mockery. |
Error | Cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie. |
Falsehood | Verb: be false; Adjective:, be a liar; speak falsely; adVerb: tell a lie; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness. |
Misteaching | Verb: misinform, misteach, misdescribe, misinstruct, miscorrect; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive; mislead; (error); misrepresent; lie; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces. |
Presence | Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there. |
Situation | Verb: be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in. |
Untruth | Noun: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lie |
| English words defined with "lie": lie awake ♦ To give the lie to, To lie in one's throat, To lie in wait, To lie on the head of ♦ White lie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lie": Lie at the Catch, Lie Circumstantial, Lie Direct, Lie hath no Feet, Lie in State, Lie on Hand, Lie Quarrelsome, Lie to One's Work, Lie with One's Fathers, loft and lie inspector and adjuster ♦ WHITE LIE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lie": Warlock. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (dregs, Lees, sediment, yeast), Norwegian (Lie), Swedish (scythe). |
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Screenplays | I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) It's strange to me that something so harmless as a jacket could symbolize such a great lie. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) That is a total lie. (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) I have to lie to women to get laid (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) | |
Lyrics | Would I lie to you honey (Would I Lie To You?; performing artist: Eurythmics) Out of me lie (Dear Lie; performing artist: TLC) Of livin' a lie (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith) And I know just how to lie. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) Dear jonathan I liked you too much I used to be attracted to boys who would lie (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | You can't pray a lie. (references; author: Mark Twain) Better to suffer for the truth than be rewarded for a lie. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) The great lie of the news media: I am the public. (references; author: unknown) Telling the truth and making someone cry is just as bad as telling a lie and making someone smile! (references; author: unknown) If you want to be well-liked, never lie about yourself and be careful when telling the truth about others. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Huang Fei Hong yong po lie huo zhen (1973) Say Something Don't Just Lie There (1973) The Lie (1970) Huang Fei-hong yong po lie huo zhen (1970) God Cannot Lie (1966) | |
Song Titles | Never Lie (performing artist: Immature) Mama Didn't Lie (performing artist: Jan Bradley) I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth) (performing artist: Meat Loaf) Dear Lie (performing artist: TLC) | |
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 | Though common to the upper respiratory tract, C. pseudodiphtheriticum has only rarely been reported to cause disease in humans. The organism appears as short gram-positive rods that often lie in parallel rows on smear preparation. Credit: CDC. |  | Extensive wetlands lie near the town of Yellowknife, near the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Canada. The shallow lakes seen in this image have formed in grooves in the landscape that were carved by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Credit: NASA. |
 | Numerous fragments of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta, lie on the reef damaged by the grounding. In the foreground, some have already been reattached. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Hake lie near the base of a lost "ghost" lobster trap. Urophycis. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Let sleeping dogs lie unless the car starts to back up. Apparently there was no leash law at Puntarenas as dogs seemed to roam about the town at will. Credit: Small World. |  | Hair comb'd with art, as sleek as mouse doth lie. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Stipple engraving by Wells, after a drawing by "P.S.O.", published by J. Gold, London, England, in the "Naval Chronicle", Volume 10 (1803). This print depicts the U.S. Frigate Philadelphia (1800-1803) entering the harbor, where two British ships-of-the-line lie at acnhor. Credit: NAVY. |  | Please lie down, Daddy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Here lie "the facts" / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The toughest peaks lie ahead!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Old-people-love" by Marieke Van Schelven Commentary: "Two older people lie down the grass at the Lowlands festival in the Netherlands. While the man reading the program is hand is on his woman. It's nice to see old people who love each other." | "Chichén Itzá" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala and extending into the limestone shelf of the Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temples and pyramids of the Maya... --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-m" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Half the truth is often a great lie. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The lie is a condition of life. |
John Heywood | Children and fools cannot lie. |
John Milton | Such sweet complusion doth in music lie. |
Publilius Syrus | Pain forces even the innocent to lie. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | Never lie when the truth is more profitable. |
Thomas Carlyle | Nature admits no lie. |
Thomas Fuller | A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected; and without which, ancient names, and specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Every army has a train, and there the accusation should lie. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It is with him I must struggle all through this night till day come, till he or I lie dead, gripping him by the sinewy throat till |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | lie with our wives, Ravish our daughters |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Now in this case I who am the right owner lie under two great disadvantages |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | His Dialogues, which contain what was immortal in him, lie on the next shelf, and yet I never read them |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You should lie on your back for 12 to 24 hours. (references) | |
Try not to sleep or lie on cloth-covered cushions or furniture. (references) | ||
You may sit in a special chair or lie down on a treatment table. (references) | ||
Business | Nonetheless, a number of challenges lie ahead for the Korean economy. (references) | |
The key parties in the opposition lie to either side of the PRI in the political spectrum. (references) | ||
The main opportunities for the foreign manufacturers lie in the export of telecom equipment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | According to the report, a traditional court tried the accused by requiring them to drink poison that traditionally is believed to kill only those who lie to the court, convicted the accused when they refused to drink, ordered them to pay in-kind, blood-price damages, and expelled them from the locality when they refused to pay. (references) |
Economic History | Belgium | The best opportunities for growth lie with SMEs. (references) |
Norway | The first UN General Secretary, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cape Verde | The Ministry of Justice does not have judicial powers; such powers lie with the courts. (references) |
Senegal | The gunmen then forced 14 bus passengers to lie down on the ground and shot and killed them. (references) | |
Guinea | Prisoners reported threats, beatings, and harassment by guards, and some reported being denied food and a place to lie down. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bahamas | The Bahamas lie along the most direct air route for transport of illegal drugs between South America and the southeastern United States. (references) |
Trade | Qatar | Import and distribution of alcoholic liquor is strictly controlled, and as of April 1, 2000 the importation and distribution of alcoholic liquor lie exclusively with the Qatar Distribution Company (QDC). Alcoholic drinks are not allowed to be imported into Qatar by any other means. (references) |
Women | Pakistan | Police are reluctant to take the complaint and sometimes are abusive toward the victim; the courts do not have consistent standards of proof as to what constitutes rape and what corroboration is required; and judges, police, and prosecutors are biased against female rape victims, tending towards a presumption of female consent and the belief that women lie about such things. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said -- and God forgive it! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Men will lie, cheat, and take advantage of the most fragile emotional states in order to get laid, true. |
Gennifer Flowers | I could have. I could have continued to lie, but I decided I didn't want to lie anymore. I didn't feel comfortable lying any longer, and I honestly felt that if I told the truth it would go away. |
Laura Schlessinger | Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things. |
Rush Limbaugh | If Gore had been elected, his whole four-year term would have been a lie. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Croix as now settled and what is usually called the Bay of Fundy lie a number of valuable islands. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For only with complete dedication by us all to the national interest can we bring our country through the troubled years that lie ahead. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | As for me, I'll leave the Presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived, and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Lie" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 47.53% of the time. "Lie" is used about 4,605 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 47.53% | 2,189 | 4,006 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.06% | 1,522 | 5,369 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.41% | 894 | 7,983 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,605 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lie | Last name | 100 | 70,768 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lie": a lie or an assertion ♦ a white lie ♦ another lie nailed to the counter ♦ as one makes one's bed so one must lie on it ♦ be or lie ♦ blatant lie ♦ downright lie ♦ give one the lie in his throat ♦ give smb. the lie ♦ give the lie to ♦ it's beneath you to lie ♦ let sleep dogs lie ♦ let sleeping dogs lie ♦ lie a long time ♦ lie about ♦ lie above ♦ lie ahead ♦ lie around ♦ lie at anchor ♦ lie at smb.'s feet ♦ lie at smb.'s mercy ♦ lie at the mercy of an enemy ♦ lie at the root of ♦ lie awake ♦ lie away ♦ lie back ♦ lie back on one's laurels ♦ lie behind ♦ lie by ♦ lie by for ♦ Lie Detection ♦ lie detector ♦ lie doggo ♦ lie dormant ♦ lie down ♦ lie down! ♦ lie dying ♦ lie face downwards ♦ lie fallow ♦ lie flat ♦ lie heavy on smb. ♦ lie heavy on the stomach ♦ lie hid ♦ lie idle ♦ lie in ♦ lie in a nutshell ♦ lie in ambush ♦ lie in ambush for ♦ lie in ambush for smb. ♦ lie in one's throat ♦ lie in prison ♦ lie in ruins ♦ lie in smth. ♦ lie in state ♦ lie in wait ♦ lie in wait for ♦ lie low ♦ lie of the land ♦ lie off ♦ lie on ♦ lie on a level with ♦ lie on hand ♦ lie on its side ♦ lie on one's back ♦ lie on one's oars ♦ lie on the back ♦ lie on the surface ♦ lie on top ♦ lie one's way out of smth. ♦ lie outside ♦ lie over ♦ lie prone ♦ lie snug ♦ lie still ♦ lie supine ♦ lie to ♦ lie under ♦ lie under a disadvantage ♦ lie under a suspicion ♦ lie under suspicion ♦ lie unemployed ♦ lie up ♦ lie upon ♦ lie waste ♦ lie with ♦ lie with a woman ♦ nail a lie ♦ not lie ♦ place to lie ♦ ruddy lie ♦ swingeing lie ♦ tell a lie ♦ To be or lie on one's back ♦ To give one the lie in his throat ♦ To give the lie to ♦ To lie along the shore ♦ To lie at one's door ♦ To lie at the door of ♦ To lie at the heart ♦ To lie at the mercy of ♦ To lie by. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lie": lie-abed, lie-a-bed, lie-detecting, lie-detector, lie-don, lie-down, lie-flat, lie-in, lie-ins, lie-up. | |
Ending with "lie": half-lie, noble-lie, shell-lie. | |
Containing "lie": Lob-lie-by-the-fire. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lie detector | 359 | lie lyrics next when | 28 |
lie | 344 | curtis jamie lee lie true | 27 |
true lie | 236 | lie lyrics | 26 |
lie detector test | 180 | true lie soundtrack | 25 |
dead doctor dont lie | 179 | love lie bleeding | 25 |
adam tight lie | 130 | people of the lie | 25 |
bush lie | 120 | sex lie and video tape | 24 |
what lie beneath | 117 | coffey kellie lie lyrics next when | 24 |
tight lie tour | 81 | lie nielsen | 24 |
true lie 2 | 63 | i like big butt and i cannot lie | 23 |
tight lie | 54 | lie quote | 21 |
lie people why | 49 | big butt can i i lie like not | 20 |
kazaa lie | 48 | true lie cast | 20 |
white lie | 44 | true lie movie | 20 |
when you lie next to me | 40 | secret and lie | 19 |
dead doctor don t lie | 40 | no lie | 17 |
lie my teacher told me | 39 | golf lie tight tour | 17 |
george w bush lie | 37 | detecting lie | 16 |
lie man why | 30 | george bush lie | 16 |
lie detection | 29 | clinton lie | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lê (recline). (various references) | |
Albanian | vendqëndrim i kafshës, shtrirje (compass, dimension, elongation, expansion, extension, extent, make believe, prolongation, proportions, rame, ramification, range, reach, scope, spread, spreading, stretch, swing), shtrihem (extend, lap, lie back, lie down, outspread, spread), rri shtrirë, rrenë (lying, mendacity), qëndron (consist, hold), ndodhet (is located), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), më takon (apply to), më përket (concern), gjendet (come), gënjeshtër (circumvention, deceit, deceitfulness, double dealing, fable, fib, flam, fudge, leasing, lurk, mendacity, oner, prevarication, sklent, taradiddle, twister, untruth), gënjej (bamboozle, beguile, cheat, deceive, defraud, fib, frig, gull, string along with, tell fibs, tell lies), ekzistoj (be, exist, inhere, live, obtain, prevail), drejtim (accost, administration, conduct, course, direction, directorship, disposal, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, leadership, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, regimen, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way). (various references) | |
Arabic | إتهام غير مؤسس, ظل (ghost, keep, remain, shade, shadow, umbra, umbrage), راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, leisure, letup, pause, recuperation, relief, repose, rest, stop), أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), أثقل (burden, charge, clog, cumber, encumber, overburden, soak, surcharge, weigh down), إضطجاع (lying), دجل (charlatanry, delusion, fake, fraud, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, imposture, quackery), إستلقى (lie back, lie down, recline, sit back), فراش (bed, mattress), إتهام كاذب, تمدد (dilate, dilation, elongation, expansion, recline, sprawl, spread, stretch, stretching), حظي بالقبول (sell), كذب (contradict, deceive, delude, disclaim, dishonesty, fable, falsehood, falseness, falsify, falsity, fib, impugn, lying, mendacity, mislead, untruth), كذبة (deceit, false, falsehood, flam, mendacity, story, tale), كمن في, إضطجع (lie down, recline, repose). (various references) | |
Asturian | dicir mentires (to lie). (various references) | |
Aymara | k'arisiña (to lie), iquintaña (to lie down). ( |
