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Lie


Definition:

  • (n.) See Lye.
  • (n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
  • (n.) A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
  • (n.) Anything which misleads or disappoints.
  • (v. i.) To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
  • (adj.) 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.
  • (adj.) To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.
  • (adj.) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
  • (adj.) To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
  • (adj.) To lodge; to sleep.
  • (adj.) To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • (adj.) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • (n.) The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (3) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (5) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (6) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The value of benefit-risk, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses lies not in providing the definitive basis for a decision on vaccine use or evaluation.
  • (9) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (10) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (11) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (12) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
  • (13) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
  • (14) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
  • (15) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
  • (16) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (17) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (18) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
  • (19) When an exercise test is not performed, a resting radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction is recommended, and coronary angiography is considered if the value lies between 0.20 and 0.44 (12% 1-year mortality).
  • (20) Pre and post infusion blood samples were drawn from a catheter lying at the lower inferior vena cava and analyzed for prostaglandin E and F, and progesterone.

Lif


Definition:

  • (n.) The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
  • (2) Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are multifunctional cytokines with many similar activities.
  • (3) Similarities between the LIF spectra of atherosclerotic plaque and collagen and normal aorta and elastin were noted.
  • (4) LIF inhibits differentiation under several conditions which lead to endodermal and mesodermal cell lineages including skeletal and cardiac muscle.
  • (5) In both actively growing and growth-arrested rat osteoblasts, LIF stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (6) Binding of activation protein (AP)-1 and NF-IL-6, also known to transcriptionally activate the IL-6 promoter, was not inducible by LIF.
  • (7) The 4.0-kb LIF transcript from TE cell-derived total RNA corresponded in size to the LIF transcripts in PMA-activated T lymphocytes.
  • (8) A hypothesis is formulated that Concanavalin A-induced release of LIF may reflect the competence of suppressor T-lymphocytes in man.
  • (9) alpha-N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethylester (BAEE), a typical trypsin substrate, and bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate (BNPP), a phosphodiester, were the only esters capable of retaining LIF activity in the presence of PMSF.
  • (10) The site of the most abundant LIF expression is the uterine endometrial glands, specifically on day 4 of pregnancy.
  • (11) The variation of the sensitivity of radiochromic film with photon energy is considerably less than that for silver halide film and similar to that for LiF TLDs, but in the opposite direction.
  • (12) Both T and B lymphocytes are known to produce leukocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) after appropriate activation.
  • (13) Preliminary characterization of these mediators by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration suggests that they are similar to antigen- and concanavalin A-induced MIF and LIF, eluting in the 25000 m.w.
  • (14) -- Cord blood lymphocytes show a normal capacity to elaborate the two lymphocytes LIF and LMF.
  • (15) Recombinant LIF improves the development of murine and ovine blastocysts in culture although there is some species specificity with respect to the type of LIF that is bioactive.
  • (16) Only one, the thrombin- and trypsin-specific benzoyl-phenylalanyl-valyl-agarine-p-nitroanilide, possessed high affinity for the LIF molecule and may therefore prove to be a potent substrate for this lymphokine.
  • (17) B cells might store presynthetized LIF in lysosomic granulae which will be degranulated very early after activation.
  • (18) The ovine and porcine LIF genes were cloned, sequenced and compared to the previously published murine and human LIF gene sequences.
  • (19) Leukemia inhibitory factor, LIF, is a glycoprotein with multiple activities in both the adult and the embryo.
  • (20) Biologically active LIF is present in synovial fluids from patients with osteoarthritis and at higher titers in samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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