Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LIE

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Definitions of LIE

1. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
2. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
3. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
4. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
5. A manner of lying; relative position.
6. An animal's lair.
7. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
8. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
9. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
10. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
11. (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
12. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
13. (legal) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
14. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
15. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
16. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
17. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
18. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
19. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
20. (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
21. Initialism of Long Island Expressway.
22. (attributive) A Norwegian surname.

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Examples of Using LIE in a Sentence

• The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean lies to the south.
• Angles formed by two rays are also known as plane angles as they lie in the plane that contains the rays.
• Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings.
• If they are not equal, the half in which the target cannot lie is eliminated and the search continues on the remaining half, again taking the middle element to compare to the target value, and repeating this until the target value is found.
• The Milky Way passes through Canis Major and several open clusters lie within its borders, most notably M41.
• This is a logical dividing line, since the normal boiling points of the so-called permanent gases (such as helium, hydrogen, neon, nitrogen, oxygen, and normal air) lie below 120 K, while the Freon refrigerants, hydrocarbons, and other common refrigerants have boiling points above 120 K.
• In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups is a result of group theory stating that every finite simple group is either cyclic, or alternating, or belongs to a broad infinite class called the groups of Lie type, or else it is one of twenty-six exceptions, called sporadic (the Tits group is sometimes regarded as a sporadic group because it is not strictly a group of Lie type, in which case there would be 27 sporadic groups).
• In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
• Unless otherwise specified, the term generally refers to the positive-valued function of a real variable, although it can be extended to the complex numbers or generalized to other mathematical objects like matrices or Lie algebras.
• The historical roots of functional analysis lie in the study of spaces of functions and the formulation of properties of transformations of functions such as the Fourier transform as transformations defining, for example, continuous or unitary operators between function spaces.
• Its origins lie in the struggle for Irish independence and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, with the party claiming the legacy of Michael Collins.
• Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947.
• One of the oldest institutions in the world, its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century.
• Here, a polyhedron is said to be convex if the shortest path between any two of its vertices lies either within its interior or on its boundary, none of its faces are coplanar (meaning they do not share the same plane, and do not "lie flat"), and none of its edges are colinear (meaning they are not segments of the same line).
• The islands of Kiribati lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the Micronesian and Polynesian regions of the South Pacific.
• According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years.
• In other words, a Lie algebra is an algebra over a field for which the multiplication operation (called the Lie bracket) is alternating and satisfies the Jacobi identity.
• In "this sentence is a lie", the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis.
• The land relief in Mostaganem Province can be divided into four regions: the Dahra Range to the east, the Mostaganem Plateau to the south, the Chelif River valley which separates the two highland regions, and the plains on the province's southern border which lie next to the marshes of the Macta.
• After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving, before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind.

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