lie

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
    — I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
  2. The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  3. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
  4. The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
  5. Anything that misleads or disappoints. broadly
    — Wishing this lie of life was o'er.
  6. The position of a fetus in the womb.
  7. A liar; a dishonest person. slang
  8. A manner of lying; relative position.
  9. An animal's lair.
动词 v.
  1. To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive. intransitive
    — When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
  2. To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. intransitive
    — The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
  3. To convey a false image or impression. intransitive
    — Photographs often lie.
  4. To be placed or situated. intransitive
    — Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.
  5. To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information. colloquial,intransitive
    — Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table.
  6. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition. copulative,intransitive
    — to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves
  7. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
    — Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
  8. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
    — And it came to passe after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and shee said, Lie with me.
  9. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
  10. To lodge; to sleep. archaic
    — While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, […] where I lay one night only.
  11. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
    — The Wind is lowd, and will not lie till the Ship be cleard of the dead.
  12. To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
    — An appeal lies in this case from the ordinary to the arches.

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
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beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder butter one's bread and lie in it deep-lying devil lies in the details forelie forlie here lies if you lie with dogs you will get fleas interlie let lie let sleeping dogs lie let the sleeping dogs lie lie above lie ahead lie around lie at one's door lie at one's heart lie at someone's door lie at someone's heart lie back lie before lie behind lie by lie doggo lie down lie ill in one's mouth lie in ambush lie in honor lie-in lie in lie in repose lie in state lie in the bed one has made lie in the way lie in wait lie low lie off lie on the oars lie-over lie over lie rough lie to lie upon lie waste lie with love-lies-bleeding make one's bed and lie in it mislie overlie how the land lies sit-lie superlie that way madness lies therein lies the rub there lies the rub truth lies at the bottom of a well underlie uneasy lies the head that wears a crown you make the bed you lie in lie like a rug outlie lie of the land belie can't lie delie I can't lie I'm not going to lie liar lie along lieberal lie by omission lie in one's throat lie like a cheap rug lie like a cheap watch lie like a dog lie through one's teeth prophe-lie testilie the camera never lies a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on a lie has no legs barefaced lie big lie black lie blue lie butler lie give lie to give one the lie in one's throat give someone the lie in their throat give the lie give the lie to I'm telling a lie I tell a lie lie-beral lie bump lie detection lie detector Lienux lies beget more lies little white lie live a lie noble lie no word of a lie pack of lies put lie to put the lie to put to lie self-lie sex, lies and videotape the cake is a lie where's the lie white lie without a word of a lie zombie lie

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola lee, lidge (“to lie”), leigh, leiough (“to idle”), North Frisian lade, lai, laie, lei, lii, läde, läie (“to lie; to lay”), Saterland Frisian lääse (“to lie; to lay”), West Frisian lizze (“to lie”), Alemannic German ligge (“to lie”), Central Franconian lijje (“to lie”), Dutch and Dutch Low Saxon liggen (“to lie”), German liegen (“to lie”), German Low German ligge, liggen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish leien (“to lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “to lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge (“to lie”), Faroese and Icelandic liggja (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ligge, liggja, liggje (“to lie”), Swedish ligga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan, “to lie, to rest”); and with Irish laigh, luigh (“to lie”), Manx lhie (“lie; lay”), Scottish Gaelic laigh (“lie; lay”), Faliscan 𐌋𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌕 (lecet, “he lies down”), Latin lectus (“bed”), South Picene 𐌅𐌄𐌉𐌀𐌕 (veiat, “to lie”), Ancient Greek λέχομαι (lékhomai, “to lie down”), Albanian lag (“band, encampment, troop”), Belarusian ляжа́ць (ljažácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лежа́ (ležá, “to lie”), Czech ležet (“to lie”), Macedonian лежи (leži, “to lie”), Polish leżeć (“to lie”), Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian лѐжати, lèžati (“to lie”), Slovene ležáti (“to lie”), Ukrainian лежа́ти (ležáty, “to lie”), Tocharian B lyäk- (“to lie”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.
词源 2
From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English lēogan (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots lee (“to lie”), North Frisian jooge, leeg, löög (“to lie”), Saterland Frisian ljooge (“to lie”), West Frisian lige (“to lie”), Bavarian liagn (“to lie”), Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Luxembourgish léien (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Faroese lúgva (“to lie”), Icelandic ljúga (“to lie”), Norwegian Bokmål juge, lyge, lyve (“to lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk ljuga, ljuge, lyga, lyge (“to lie”), Scanian ljuğa (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (liugan, “to lie”); also Breton le (“vow”), Cornish li (“oath”), Welsh llw (“oath, pledge, vow; curse, swear word”), Latvian lùgt (“to ask; to request; to seek; to plead; to solicit; to invoke; to desire”), Belarusian ілга́ць (ilhácʹ), лга́ць (lhácʹ, “to lie”), Bulgarian лъжа (lǎža, “to lie”), Czech lhát (“to lie”), Kashubian łżec (“to lie”), Macedonian ла́же (láže, “to lie”), Polish łgać (“to lie”), Russian лгать (lgatʹ, “to lie”), Serbo-Croatian ла̀гати, làgati (“to lie”), Slovak luhať (“to lie”), Slovene lagáti (“to lie”).
词源 3
From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to announce, tell publicly”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Löägene (“a lie”), Dutch leugen, logen, loogen (“a lie”), German Lug, Lüge, Lügen (“a lie”), German Low German Lögen (“a lie”), Luxembourgish Ligen (“a lie”), Yiddish ליגן (lign, “a lie”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løgn (“a lie”), Icelandic lygi, lygn (“a lie”), Norwegian Nynorsk lygn, løgn (“a lie”), Swedish lögn (“a lie”); also Bulgarian лъжа́ (lǎžá, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian ла̑ж, laž (“a lie”), Slovak lož (“a lie”), Slovene lȃž (“a lie”).
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