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Definition: Lie Awake |
Lie AwakeVerb1. Lie without sleeping; "She was so worried, she lay awake all night long". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Do you lie awake at night thinking of ways to disrupt my husband's campaign? (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman) No ma'am, I lie awake at night and try not to think at all. (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman) They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) I lie awake at night thinking about you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) They think we all lie awake dreaming of going to America. (Billion Dollar Brain; writing credit: Len Deighton; John McGrath) | |
Lyrics | Sometimes I lie awake, night after night (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel) We lie awake, this wall between us (HOW CAN WE BE LOVERS; performing artist: Michael Bolton) And when the stars fall I will lie awake, (Goodbye To You; performing artist: Michelle Branch) I lie awake at night (Angelia; performing artist: Richard Marx) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Charles M. Schultz | Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "lie awake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | nespat. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ielay awakeay sta culcat fãrã sã doarmã. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-k-l-w" | |
-3 letters: akela, alike, awake. | |
-4 letters: akee, alae, alee, awee, ilea, ilka, kail, kale, keel, lake, leak, leek, leke, like, lwei, wail, wake, wale, walk, weak, weal, week, weel, weka, wile. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, ala, ale, awa, awe, awl, eel, eke, elk, ewe, ilk, kae, kea, law, lea, lee, lei, lek, lie, wae, wee. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 65      41 77 61 6B 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i e   A w a k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0065      0041 0077 0061 006B 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46757123589677771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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