تعريف (a) lie في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- I tell a lie
- I am mistaken; I thought that what I said (or wrote) was true, but I have just realised that it is not
I travelled there in 1996, no, I tell a lie, in 1997.
- Lie algebra
- A vector space with a specific kind of binary operation on it
- Lie algebras
- plural form of Lie algebra
- Lie group
- Any of many analytic groups that are also a smooth manifold; they arise as groups of rotational symmetries
- a lie has no legs
- You can't get away with a lie, the truth will always come out
- barefaced lie
- A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood
I understand that salespeople try to explain things in a positive way, but that was a barefaced lie.
- give the lie to
- to prove something to be false; to refute
They found plenty of email that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident.
- if you lie with dogs you will get fleas
- It is important whom to choose as one's closest acquanitances
- let sleeping dogs lie
- To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past
Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.
- lie
- To be in a horizontal position
Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
- lie
- The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck
- lie
- To give false information intentionally
- lie
- A deliberately false statement; an intentional falsehood
- lie
- The position of a fetus in the womb
- lie
- To convey a false image or impression
Photos often lie.
- lie
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
- lie
- To be placed or situated
Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate closet taxonomist, Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- lie back and think of England
- Used to preface any unpleasant but inevitable experience
- lie back and think of England
- In imperative form, advice supposedly formerly given to women before sexual intercourse with their husbands. (often associated with the Victorians, though not attested until later). "think of England" refers to the importance of children
- lie by
- To have sex with
Than he lete make a cry thorow all the oste that uppon layne of lyff and lymme that no lyege man that longyth to his oste sholde lye be no maydens ne ladyes nother no burgessis wyff that to the cité longis.
- lie detection
- The use of lie detectors to verify the truth or falsity of a person's testimony
- lie detector
- A polygraph, a device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being asked to a subject, in an attempt to detect lies
- lie detectors
- plural form of lie detector
- lie doggo
- To lie still and quiet in order to avoid detection
We appreciate your need to lie doggo for a bit.
- lie down
- to be lazy or remiss
He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.
- lie down
- to assume a reclining position
Lie down on the bed until you feel better.
- lie in
- To stay in bed (longer than usual)
I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.
- lie in
- To be brought to bed in childbirth
he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery.
- lie in wait
- To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly
- lie through one's teeth
- To tell a gross or egregious untruth
When a politician claims he can lower taxes without cutting spending, he's lying through his teeth.
- lie upon
- To importune; to urge; to solicit
The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him.
- lie upon
- To lie on
She was lying upon the bed.
- lie upon
- To be incumbent upon; to be up to (someone); to be obligatory upon
It lies upon the prosecution to prove that the defendant is guilty.
- lie with
- to have sex, sexual relations with someone
- lie-in
- A period spent lying in bed for longer than usual after one has woken up
As I didn't have to go to work, I decided to have a lie-in.
- live a lie
- To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective
- white lie
- A deliberate, untrue statement which does no harm or is intended to produce a favorable result
An occasional little white lie such as Weston's probably won't cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth—particularly the whole truth to a child who's not at an age to handle it—may do more harm than good, they say.
- you make the bed you lie in
- A person's circumstances are normally the result of their own actions
- you've made your bed, now lie in it
- You must accept the consequences of your actions
- lie
- {f} be in a horizontal position, recline; be placed in a horizontal position; rest; be located, be situated; be or remain in a particular position or condition; be, exist; extend; be acceptable (Law)
- lie
- {f} make an intentionally untruthful statement, tell a falsehood; purposefully deceive
- lie
- {i} manner in which something lies, state, position, posture; lair of an animal
- lie
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- lie
- {i} untruthful statement, falsehood; deception
- lie
- position or manner in which something is situated
- lie
- Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
- lie
- be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant"
- lie
- To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin
- lie
- originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
- lie
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"
- lie
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- Lie
- Norwegian politician and first secretary-general of the United Nations (1946-1953). lie detector Lie Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie Trygve
- lie
- {v} to tell a lie, to utter a falsehood
- lie
- {v} to rest, lean, stay, remain, cost, belonging to
- lie
- {n} an untruth or falsehood uttered with a criminal intention, a fiction
- let sleeping dogs lie
- (Atasözü) Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to. "Don't tell Father that you broke the window. Let sleeping dogs lie."
- lie in
- lie-in: A prolonged stay in bed in the morning
- lie in
- (verb) (of a pregnant woman) Go to bed to give birth
- lie in
- (verb) Remain in bed later than usual
- lie in state
- lying in state is a term used to describe the tradition in which a coffin is placed on view to allow the public at large to pay their respects to the deceased
- make one's bed and lie in it
- (deyim) Create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure
- lie
- Acronym for Line Islands Experiment, a GARP project
- lie low
- to try to avoid detection especially by police; "After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lay low for a while"
