(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.
Recline
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
(v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
(v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
(v. t.) Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
Example Sentences:
(1) All examinations were performed during winter on reclined relaxed subjects present for at least 10 min in a test room with controlled temperature and relative humidity (t degrees: 19.5-20.7 degrees C and RH: 47.3-60.3%).
(2) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
(3) Surface electrodes measured electromyographic activity of the low-back extensor, hip adductor and ankle plantar-flexor muscles when the body was at 0 degree (upright) and 30 degrees (recline) relative to the vertical.
(4) The short-term antiorthostatic position was associated with a disordered hormonal control, reduced plasma aldosterone and enhanced plasma renin activity, as compared to the respective parameters of the reclining position.
(5) Patients scoring high on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking factor of the CSQ were much less functionally impaired, walked a 5 m course more rapidly and moved from a standing to a sitting or reclining position more quickly than patients scoring low on this factor.
(6) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
(7) The Cat reclined on a pile of mattresses in his tent.
(8) I would recline back and listen to music, and read the paper or a book I thought would impress her.
(9) The patients were examined in reclined position, the head retroflected.
(10) In contrast, a backrest-only recline of 20 degrees causes a 25% increase in the surface shear force.
(11) The scapular region is from 1 to 2 deg F hotter than the sacral region for subjects reclining on Mylar.
(12) Specific changes were detected in the gel patterns which could be correlated with the loss of muscle function as measured by the exhaustion score (the ability of chicks to rise from a reclining position) in three experimental groups (exhaustion scores: less than 3, 10-20, greater than 30).
(13) The enormous amounts of activity in the subjects required the detector to be positioned at a height of 2.05 m. Subjects were required to wear disposable clothing and lie on a reclining, fiberglass chair.
(14) Small amounts of water and taste solutions were applied to the posterior tongue of the subject as he reclined on a dental chair.
(15) Within the limitations of the study (no counterbalancing of order and twice as many ABPM measures as watch measures), we found significant differences in frequency of being at home or in miscellaneous settings, in standing and reclining positions, and in mental, physical and miscellaneous activities between the two occasions.
(16) Subjects were seated reclining 30 degrees from upright, and respiratory muscle weakness was produced by pancuronium bromide until RC inspiratory capacity was decreased to 60% of control.
(17) To determine whether the left space that is neglected after right hemisphere lesions is body centered or environment centered, we asked patients with right hemisphere stroke and normal controls to report the contents of spatial arrays of objects or words, either while seated or while reclining on their side.
(18) Six young males, resting in a dorsal reclining position, were exposed successively to a thermoneutral environment (30 min), a cold environment (1 degrees C; cold) or thermoneutrality (control) for 120 min, and during a 60-min recovery period in thermoneutral conditions.
(19) Then, they exercised using a bicycle ergometer in a semi-reclining position for 45 min at 40% of maximal oxygen uptake.
(20) However, Rupert Murdoch was sitting in the editor’s chair while Larry reclined on the settee the other side of the room.