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Definition: Lying |
LyingAdjective1. Given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child". Noun1. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are lying to escape punishment, denotes that you will act dishonorably towards some innocent person. Lying to protect a friend from undeserved chastisement, denotes that you will have many unjust criticisms passed upon your conduct, but you will rise above them and enjoy prominence. To hear others lying, denotes that they are seeking to entrap you. Lynx. To dream of seeing a lynx, enemies are undermining your business and disrupting your home affairs. For a woman, this dream indicates that she has a wary woman rivaling her in the affections of her lover. If she kills the lynx, she will overcome her rival. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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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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Synonyms: LyingSynonyms: lying(a) (adj), mendacious (adj), fabrication (n), prevarication (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin. |
Horizontality | Recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying; Verb: prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant. |
Recumbency, lying down; Verb: reclination, decumbence; decumbency, discumbency; proneness; Adjective: accubation, supination, resupination, prostration; azimuth. | |
Improbity | Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal. |
Lowness | Adjective: low, neap, debased; nether, nether most; flat, level with the ground; lying low; Verb: crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate; (horizontal). |
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Crosswords: Lying |
| English words defined with "lying": lying in wait ♦ take lying down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lying": be lying to ♦ Lying by the Wall, Lying Traveller. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lying": slugabed. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, at least you're taking it lying down (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Like when I accused you of lying, or when I accused you of dating Joe Junior, or when I thought you were pregnant and announced it to all your friends (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.) You think I'm lying, don't you (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) If you think I'm lying, drop the bomb (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool) I said that you're a lying member of a no good race (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) | |
Lyrics | So I cry somethimes when I'm lying in bed (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes) It may be factual, it may be cruel, I ain't lying (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) Lying close to you feeling your heart beating (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) 'cuz I was tired of lying (Brick; performing artist: Ben Folds Five) | |
Clever | A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. (references; author: Mark Twain) Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lying Lips (1939) The Lying Truth (1922) Lying Lips (1921) His Lying Heart (1916) S.S. 'Coptic' Lying To (1898) | |
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 | Pictured is a white adult female patient being readied for radiation therapy. She is lying on a table, covered with a white cloth. In some views, a technician is standing by the patient adjusting the radiation equipment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A female patient is lying on a bed with a technician positioning the patient's head in preparation for radiotherapy. This photograph was used in the NCI publication "When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer". Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer). |
 | A white female patient receives a lateral mammogram treatment. She is lying on her left side with the left breast compressed and she is holding her right breast out of the way so as to not block the x-ray. Note the older methods of the diagnostic procedure. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Pictured are instruments used in endoscopy. They are highlighted in an otherwise dark picture and lying on a textured cloth. Shown are flexible fibers, a small brush and a third instrument in some photos. The fibers transmit high intensity light through the endoscope shown. The brushes are used to take biopsies. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Shown is a close-up of the feet of a man standing on a bathroom scale with a towel lying nearby. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Grindstone Point on Schoodic Head. Cobble beach lying between tabular outcroppings of exfoliated granite. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Natural reef areas close to the artificial reef site were also sampled to determine the biomass and species composition of fish. You can see the portable transect line lying along the bottom. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | On the beach at Laysan Island - monk seal lying on the beach about 100 feet away. Credit: Small World. |
 | Grey mare grazes in pasture with foal lying beside her. Credit: USDA. |  | Deer, fawn, with small spots lying on the ground. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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| "Camel Lying Down from Florida" by David Sinofksy Commentary: "Camel Lying Down from Florida Zoo." | "New York Christmas balls" by Martijn Hoes Commentary: "Some huge Christmas balls lying in the water in Manhatten, New York." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Lying rides upon debt's back. |
| The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. | |
Fyodor Dostoevski | Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. |
Leonardo da Vinci | Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
Samuel Butler | I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. |
St. Augustine | All sin is a kind of lying. |
| Lying is forbidden, even to the detection of heretics. | |
William Shakespeare | Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! |
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John Locke | 1690 | What he adds, into the power and dominion of a foreign nation, signifies nothing, the fault and forfeiture lying in the loss of their liberty, which he ought to have preserved, and not in any distinction of the persons to whose dominion they were subjected. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In the section of the evacuated zone lying to the north of a line, from East to West (shown by a red line on map No. 4 which is annexed to the present Treaty). (reference) |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod screamed a diminished fifth himself, dropped his light and sat heavily on the floor, or rather on a body which had been lying there undisturbed for six months and which reacted to being sat on by exploding with great violence |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Madeleine, lying almost flat under the fearful weight, was twice seen to try in vain to bring his elbows and knees nearer together |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | We saw him lying upon the catafalque |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Sairy took her to a mattress lying on the ground and sat her down on it. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When lying down, sit first and then stand. (references) | |
Avoid lying down for 3 hours after eating. (references) | ||
An L.P. is done while the patient is lying on one side or sitting. (references) | ||
Business | The remaining are lying unutilized or handling occasional aircraft operations. (references) | |
Lying in the heart of Europe, the Czech Republic is uniquely positioned to become a key transport hub integrating Western and Eastern Europe. (references) | ||
The SCAA rejects Skavsta, Vasteras and others as lying too far from Stockholm, and therefore advocates the building of a completely new airport. (references) | ||
Economic History | Benin | Benin has fields of lying fallow, mangroves, and remnants of large sacred forests. (references) |
Bermuda | Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of seven main islands and many smaller islands and islets lying about 1,050 kilometers (650 mi.) east of North Carolina. (references) | |
Fiji | Fiji comprises a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific lying about 4,450 km (2,775 mi.) southwest of Honolulu and 1,770 km (1,100 mi.) north of New Zealand. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | Illegal coca growers alleged that Huanca then was shot again by security forces while lying wounded. (references) |
Haiti | Well-publicized photos showed CIMO agents standing next to rows of naked prisoners lying face down in the main courtyard. (references) | |
Poland | The law on "lustration" or vetting, designed to expose government officials who collaborated with the Communist-era secret police, bans from office for 10 years those persons caught lying about their past. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | Human Rights Watch also reported that women face problems in the collection of evidence; that the doctors tasked to examine rape victims often believe that the victims are lying; that they are trained insufficiently and have inadequate facilities for the collection of forensic evidence pertaining to rape; that they do not testify very effectively in court; and that they tend to focus on the virginity status of the victim, and, due either to an inadequate understanding of the need for prompt medical evaluations or to inadequate resources, often delay the medical examinations for many days or even weeks, making any evidence that they collect of dubious utility. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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Alexander Benedetto | William is lying there sleeping in the guest house there. We go back in. We sit down, watch a little TV, unwind a little bit, go to sleep. |
Dennis Miller | Make Kenneth Lay work the drive-thru at Jack In The Box so I can literally hear that lying bastard's voice coming out of a clown's mouth. |
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. |
Mattie Stepanek | One day I went into the room of my mother, Ms. Lillian Carter. She was lying down on her bed in her room. I propped my feet up on her bed and I said, Miss Lillian, dear mommy, I want to run for president of the United States of America. |
Mike Medavoy | Well, it was kind of surreal, actually. Getting there and walking into a hospital room where Marty was lying, you know, with a bunch of tubes and monitors going, and it looked like he wasn't going to recover. |
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| "Lying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.89% of the time. "Lying" is used about 4,491 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 (-ing form) | 97.89% | 4,396 | 2,228 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.91% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.11% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,491 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "lying". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Achzib | N/A | Biblical | Lying |
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Expressions using "lying": addicted to lying ♦ be lying ♦ be lying down ♦ be lying flat out ♦ be lying to ♦ catch a person lying ♦ day of snow lying ♦ leave lying around ♦ low lying ♦ lying dog ♦ lying down ♦ lying face downwards ♦ lying in ♦ lying in the west ♦ lying in wait ♦ lying indolently ♦ lying north ♦ lying on one's back ♦ Lying panel ♦ Lying to ♦ lying under oath ♦ lying with a woman ♦ remain lying ♦ snow lying day ♦ take lying down. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lying": lying-down, lying-in, lying-in hospital, lying-in-hospital, lying-in-state, lying-low. | |
Ending with "lying": deep-lying, flat-lying, lower-lying. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "lying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të gënjyer (mendacity), rrenë (lie, mendacity), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), i ndenjur shtrirë, i gënjeshtërt (false, illusive, illusory, mock, truthless, untrue), gënjimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | كذاب (bluffer, deceitful, false, fibber, mendacious, untruthful), كذب (contradict, deceive, delude, disclaim, dishonesty, fable, falsehood, falseness, falsify, falsity, fib, impugn, lie, mendacity, mislead, untruth), كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), كائن (being, existence, existing, located, situated), إستلقاء, إضطجاع (lie). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лъжене, лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain). (various references) | |
Chinese | 说谎 (Lain, lied). (various references) | |
Czech | ležící (incumbent, recumbent), lež (falsehood, fib, leasing, lie, untruth), prolhaný (dishonest, untruthful). (various references) | |
Danish | liggeboks (creep area, lying box), ligge underdrejet (be lying to), lejeareal (creep area, lying area, lying box), leje (hire, rent, rental), sygelig løgnagtighed (pathological lying, pseudologia fantastica), selvanklagen (pathological lying, pseudomania), pseudomani (pathological lying, pseudomania), pseudologia phantastica (pathological lying, pseudologia fantastica), mythomani (confabulation, pathological lying, pseudologia fantastica, pseudomania), det nationale luftrum,territorialfarvandene og kontinentalsoklen i internationale farvande,som landet har eneherredømme over (national air-space, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters), den skaarlagte afgroede opsamles af groentfoderlaesserens opsamletromle (are lifted by the pick-up reel of the crop loader, lying losely in swaths, the cut crops), dag med sne paa jorden (day of snow lying, day with snow cover, snow lying day). (various references) | |
Dutch | ligplaats met strooisel (lying box with litter), ligplaats (anchorage, moorage, mooring), ligboxenstal (stable with cow cubicles, stable with lying boxes), ligbox (creep area, lying box), steken (enter, insert, lay down, pick, place, put, put down, put in, stab, sting), pseudomanie (pathological lying, pseudomania), pseudologia fantastica (pathological lying, pseudologia fantastica), kraamvrouw (lying-in woman), kraamkamer (lying-in room), het oppervlak van de aardebaan wordt aangeduid als oppervlak van het zandbed,de direct daaronder gelegen laag als het zandbed (and the soil lying immediately below this level is referred to as the subgrade, the upper surface of the earthworks is termed the formation), het nationale luchtruim,de territoriale wateren en het continentaal plat in de internationale wateren waarover het land exclusieve rechten kan doen gelden (national air-space, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters), het losse,in zwaden liggende materiaal wordt opgeraapt door de tandemtrommel van de hooioplader met schuifstanden (are lifted by the pick-up reel of the crop loader, lying losely in swaths, the cut crops), deel van het molecuul dat buiten de celmembraan ligt (portion lying outside the cell membrane), dag met sneeuwdek (day of snow lying, day with snow cover, snow lying day), bijliggen (be lying to). (various references) | |
Esperanto | akuŝoĉambro (lying-in room), akuŝintino (lying-in woman). (various references) | |
Farsi | دروغگوءی (Mendacity). (various references) | |
Finnish | valehteleva (mendacious). (various references) | |
French | sis, menteur, mentant, mensonge, gisant. (various references) | |
German | liegend (couchant, couching, horizontal, reclining, recumbent), lügnerisch (mendacious, untruthful). (various references) | |
Greek | κειμένοσ (situated), το να ψεύδεται κανείς, ψευδόμενοσ, ψευδολογίεσ (cant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מושכב (bedded, laid down), מורבץ (sprinkled, watered), תרמית (deceit, deception, fraud, ruse), שקרנות (mendacity), שקר (false, falsehood, falsity, lie, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth), שכיבה (cohabitation, reclining), בדאי (fabricated, false, fantasy, fiction), רביצה (bending, crouching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hazug (guileless, liar, mendacious, prevaricator, two-tongued, untrue, untruthful), hazudó, fekvõ (recumbent). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fæðingarherbergi (lying-in room). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pendustaan, kebohongan (falsehood, lie, untrue, untruth). (various references) | |
Italian | giacente (recumbent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 伏射 (shooting lying prone), 下敷 (crushed beneath, desk pad, mat, pinned under, something lying underneath), 下敷き (crushed beneath, desk pad, mat, pinned under, something lying underneath), 俯向き (lying face down, upside down), 俯向け (lying face down, upside down), 俯せ (lying on one's face, upside-down), 山積 (form into piles, forming apile, lying in piles), 出しっ放す (to leave lying around, to leave on, to leave running, to leaveopen), 分娩臥床 (lying-in bed), 休耕 (lying fallow), 腹這い (lying on one's belly), 伏在 (being hidden, lying concealed), 横臥 (lying on the side), 気が重い (bummed out, feel depressed, heavyhearted, something lying heavy on one's mind), 偃臥 (lying face down), 五戒 , 座臥 (daily life, sitting and lying down), 眠っている金 (money lying idle), 見附け , 出し放す (to leave lying around, to leave on, to leave running, to leaveopen). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うつむけ (lying face down, upside down), だしっぱなす (to leave lying around, to leave on, to leave running, to leaveopen), えんが (lying face down), はらばい (lying on one's belly), みつけ (approach), ごかい (clam worm, lugworm, misunderstanding), ふくしゃ (copy, duplicate, radiation, shooting lying prone), ふくざい (being hidden, lying concealed, penal servitude, pleading guilty, submitting to a sentence), だしはなす (to leave lying around, to leave on, to leave running, to leaveopen), うつむき (lying face down, upside down), おうが (lying on the side), うつぶせ (lying on one's face, upside-down), さんせき (form into piles, forming apile, lying in piles), きゅうこう (closing school, dropping one's studies, executing by oneself, express, famine relief, lecture cancelled, lying fallow, old friendship, old manuscript, suspension of sailings), ねむっているかね (money lying idle), ざが (daily life, sitting and lying down), きがおもい (bummed out, feel depressed, heavyhearted, something lying heavy on one's mind), したじき (crushed beneath, desk pad, mat, pinned under, something lying underneath), ぶんべんがしょう (lying-in bed). (various references) | |
Korean | 속임 (Tricking). (various references) | |
Manx | breagerys, breageraght (equivocation), breagagh (bogus, delusive, extravagant, false, fictitious, illusive, imitation, pinchbeck, spurious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | leito (bed, channel, ground, lay, layer, runway), situado (situated), sito, repouso (recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, repose, rest, time-out), mentiroso (dissembler, double-tongued, fabulist, liar, made-up, mendacious, phoney, romancer, shammer, sklent, truthless, untrue), mentira (bung, canard, caulker, corker, crack, cracker, cram, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsehood, have-on, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, mendacity, phoney, phony, tall tale, taradiddle, untruth), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), falsidade (double-dealing, eyewash, falsehood, falseness, falsity, flam, insincerity, lie, perfidy, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth), entendido (adept, understood, versed), enganador (claptrap, crater, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, false, illusive, illusory, misleading, scam artist, shuffler, skin-deep, specious), deitado (decumbent, lying-down, recumbent), cama (bed, couch, kip, roost, shikar). (various references) | |
Romanian | minciunã (bung, deceit, fabrication, falsehood, fib, gag, lie, tale, untruth), mincinos (inventor, liar, mendacious, phony, story teller, tale teller, two faced, two-tongued, untrue), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references) | |
Russian | ложь (cracker, crammer, fabrication, falsehood, fib, leasing, lie, mendacity, taradiddle, terminological inexactitudes, untruth), ложный (erroneous, fallacious, false, mendacious, phoney, phony, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful), лживость (deceit, deceitfulness, falseness, inveracity, mendacity, phoniness), лежащий (decumbent, incumbent, recumbent, superincumbent, superjacent), лежачий (recumbent), лежать;лгать вранье лежащий;ложный, лежание. (various references) | |
Scottish | baibeil. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ležećki (supine), ležeći (idle, prone), lažovski, lažljiv (double-tongued, mendacious), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references) | |
Spanish | mentiroso (addicted to lying, bouncer, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, double-tongued, false, fibber, liar, prevaricator, untruthful). (various references) | |
Swedish | lögnaktig (deceitful, double-tongued, mendacious, untruthful). (various references) | |
Thai | พูดปด, การพูดปด. (various references) | |
Turkish | yatacak yer (accommodation, accommodations, bed, lair, quarters, sleeping accommodation), yatış (lie), yalancılık (falsity, mendacity), yalan söyleme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лежачий (decumbent, reclined, recumbent), лежання, брехня (bouncer, bung, caulker, crammer, falsehood, falsity, fib, flam, fudge, leasing, lie, spinach, untruth, windy, yap), брехливий (calumniuos, double meaning, double-tongued, mendacious, scurrilous, untruthful), помилковий (bad, blundering, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, faulty, inaccurate, mistaken, peccant, phony, truthless, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thói nói dối, sự nằm nơi nằm, sự nói dối (bung, lie), chỗ nằm. (various references) | |
Welsh | celwyddog (false, mendacious), anwireddus (false, untruthful), anwir (false, untrue, wicked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accubitionem, accubitu, accubitus, falsa, falsae, falsam, falsas, false, falsi, falsidicus, falsis, falso, falsos, falsum, falsus, mendace, mendacem, mendaces, mendacia, mendacii, mendaciis, mendacio, mendacis, mendacium, mendax, periuris, periurus, vaniloqui, vaniloquia. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | leasung. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epipeswn de ekeinoV epi to sthqoV tou ihsou legei autw kurie tiV estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Itaque cum recubuisset ille supra pectus Iesu dicit ei Domine quis est |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Witodlice þa he hlenede ofer þashælendes breosten he cwæð to him. Drihtenhwæt is he. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And so whanne he hadde restid ayen on the brest of Jhesu, he seith to hym, Lord, who is it? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He then as he leaned on Iesus brest sayde vnto him: Lorde who ys it? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He then lying on Jesus' breast, saith to him, Lord, who is it? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He, then, resting his head on Jesus' breast, said to him, Lord, who is it? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Busa sa nagpauraray siya sa dughan ni Jesus, siya nangutana kaniya, "Ginoo, kinsa man?" |
| Chinese | 那 門 徒 便 就 勢 靠 著 耶 穌 的 胸 膛 、 問 他 說 、 主 阿 、 是 誰 呢 。 |
| Croatian | Ovaj se privine Isusu uz prsa i upita: "Gospodine, tko je taj?" |
| Danish | Men denne bøjer sig op til Jesu Bryst og siger til ham: "Herre! hvem er det?" |
| Dutch | En deze, vallende op de borst van Jezus, zeide tot Hem: Heere, wie is het? |
| Finnish | Niin tämä, nojautuen Jeesuksen rintaa vasten, sanoi hänelle: "Herra, kuka se on?" |
| French | Et ce disciple, s`étant penché sur la poitrine de Jésus, lui dit: Seigneur, qui est-ce? |
| German | Denn derselbe lag an der Brust Jesu, und er sprach zu ihm: HERR, wer ist's? |
| Hungarian | Az pedig a Jézus kebelére hajolván, monda néki: Uram, ki az? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka pengikut itu merapat pada Yesus, dan bertanya, "Siapa dia, Tuhan?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Oleh yang demikian, sedangkan murid itu bersandar di dada Yesus, lalu bertanya, "Ya Tuhan, siapakah dia itu?" |
| Maori | Na ka takoto atu ia ki te uma o Ihu, ka mea ki a ia, E te Ariki, ko wai koia? |
| Norwegian | Han heller sig da op til Jesu bryst og sier: Herre! hvem er det? |
| Portuguese | Aquele discípulo, recostando-se assim ao peito de Jesus, perguntou-lhe: Senhor, quem é? |
| Rumanian | Wi ucenicul acela s`a rqzemat pe pieptul lui Isus, wi I -a zis: ,,Doamne, cine este?`` |
| Shuar | Tutai Jesusan áyanmatsan aniasmiayi. "¿Yait, Uunta?" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces él, recostándose sobre el pecho de Jesús, le dijo: --Señor, ¿quién es? |
| Swahili | Mwanafunzi huyo akasogea karibu zaidi na Yesu, akamwuliza, "Bwana, ni nani?" |
| Swedish | Han lutade sig då mot Jesu bröst och frågade honom: "Herre, vilken är det?" |
| Uma | Toe pai' ana'guru toei mpomohui' Yesus, pai' mpekune' -i: "Hema-i, Pue'?" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lying": lyingly, lyings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lying": allying, applying, bellying, belying, bullying, butterflying, collying, complying, counterrallying, cullying, dallying, dillydallying, dollying, flying, gallying, gillying, gullying, implying, jellying, jollying, misallying, misapplying, mislying, misrelying, multiplying, noncomplying, nonflying, outbullying, outflying, outlying, overflying, overlying, overplying, oversupplying, plying, rallying, reapplying, reflying, relying, replying, resupplying, sallying, sicklying, sullying, superlying, supplying, tallying, trollying, underlying, willying. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lying": flyings, noncomplyings, plyingly, rallyings, underlyingly. (additional references) | |
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"Lying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blying, laing, liang, Liebing, lieing, lieng, Liqing, Liyange, Liyun, loing, lving, lyeing, lyen, lyin, Lyminge, lysing, Myung, uying, ying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lying" (pronounced lī"ing) |
| 4 | l ī" i ng | applying, belying, complying, flying, implying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, relying, replying, supplying, underlying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | buying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, frying, indemnifying, prying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, tieing, trying, tying, undying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lingy. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: inly, ling, liny. | |
-2 letters: gin, lin, nil, yin. | |
-3 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: clingy, flying, gainly, glycin, jingly, kingly, laying, lungyi, lyings, lysing, plying, singly, tingly, wyling. | |
+2 letters: allying, angrily, belying, byrling, claying, cloying, cycling, cymling, dingily, flaying, fleying, flyings, flyting, gingely, gleying, glycine, glycins, guyline, ignobly, lazying, levying, lignify, lungyis, lyingly, mangily, nightly, nylghai, playing, ploying, relying, shingly, slaying, styling, vyingly, yawling, yealing, yelling, yelping, yodling, yowling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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