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Lie Detector

Definition: Lie Detector

Lie Detector

Noun

1. A polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Lie Detector

DomainDefinitions

Law

An instrument for making a graphic record of the changes in blood pressure and pulse and respiration rate of someone being questioned under or as if under suspicion of guilt; called also --. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Lie Detector

Specialty definitions using "lie detector": detective, private eyeINVESTIGATOR, PRIVATEtrace-by-trace plottingundercover operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lie Detector

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lie Detector (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lie Detector

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lie detector use in the workplace : federal and state restrictions (reference)

  • Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam (reference)

  • Winning the Polygraph Test Game: How to Beat the Lie Detector (reference)

  • How to Build a Lie Detector, Brain Wave Monitor and Other Secret Parapsychological Electronics Projects (reference)

  • Lie Detector in Employment (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lie Detector

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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359

  lie detector test

180

  lie detector software

15

  pass a lie detector test

14

  beat a lie detector

12

  lie detector testing

12

  portable lie detector

12

  beat a lie detector test

11

  truster lie detector

7

  human lie detector

6

  passing a lie detector test

5

  beating a lie detector

3

  lie detector download

3

  build a lie detector

3

  lie detector for sale

3

  simple lie detector

3

  lie detector work

3

  free lie detector

3

  beating a lie detector test

2

  lie detector kit

2
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Modern Translations: Lie Detector

Language Translations for "lie detector"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مكشاف الكذب (polygraph). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

детектор на лъжата. (various references)

   

Czech

  

detektor lži. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

leugendetector (Keeler polygraph), polygraaf (Keeler polygraph). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valheenpaljastuskoje. (various references)

   

French

  

détecteur de mensonges, détecteur de mensonge. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מכו ת אמת (polygraph). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hazugságvizsgáló, hazugságmérõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

macchina della verit . (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

嘘発見器 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うそはっけ"き. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cronneyder breagyn, brahder breagyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ielay etectorday

   

Portuguese

  

preguiçoso (chair warmer, dawdler, idle, indolent, laggard, lazy, lazybones, loaf sugar, loller, lubberly, otioseness, remiss, slack, slacker, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, work-shy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

детектор лжи (polygraph). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poligraf, detektor laži. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

detector de mentiras. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lögndetektor. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yalan makinesi (polygraph). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Lie Detector

Misspellings

"Lie Detector" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lie detecter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lie Detector

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-o-r-t-t"

-2 letters: electrode, electroed.

-3 letters: cottered, derelict, detecter, detector, dolerite, dotterel, electret, erectile, lettered, littered, loitered, recoiled, retitled, tercelet, toileted.

-4 letters: clotted, cordite, coterie, cottier, creeled, dottier, dottrel, elected, elector, electro, erected, recited, reelect, reoiled, reticle, retiled, retitle, tetrode, tierced, tiercel, tortile, triolet.

-5 letters: ceiled, ceiler, cerite, citole, clerid, coedit, coiled, coiler, colder, colter, cotter, credit.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-o-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: electrodeposit, interelectrode, multielectrode.

 

+4 letters: electrodeposits, intercorrelated, interelectrodes, internucleotide, radiotelemetric.

 

+5 letters: electrodeposited, recontextualized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lie Detector


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 65      44 65 74 65 63 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100101 00100000 01000100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#101 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#116 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0065      0044 0065 0074 0065 0063 0074 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46757123871867169868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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