What's the difference between lier and lire?

Lier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A questionnaire was sent to 454 employees at Lier Sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo.
  • (2) The present study which was performed by self-administered questionnaires, showed that most of the health personel at Lier sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo, were willing to and interested in doing active preventive work.

Lire


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Lira

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Animals exposed to chronic toluene inhalation also presented higher values of latency in both LIRE and LE when compared to non-exposed to toluene (controls) of the same age.
  • (2) In 1983 the load per machine was 400 patients and the cost per patient was 1 milion lire.
  • (3) As far as the latter is concerned a daily cost reduction of 70000-16000 lire is foreseeable.
  • (4) The mean cost was 48,000 lire in the manual, and 200,000 lire in the mechanical group.
  • (5) Adult rats both exposed to chronic toluene inhalation and non-exposed showed higher values of LIRE and LE with respect young rats.
  • (6) Convertibility risk This refers to the risk that you will buy bonds denominated in euros but could ultimately be paid back in lire or drachma (or deutschmarks) if the country taking out the debt leaves the eurozone before the end of the bond's life.
  • (7) It's such a fantastic figure that it can't be met in any currency unless they are expecting Turkish lire or [old] Italian money, which is a million-note job."
  • (8) every lira spent on vaccination has resulted in a direct saving of 12.98 lire with respect to cases prevented and the cost of their treatment and patient rehabilitation.
  • (9) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
  • (10) « Voici venir votre rayon de soleil », peut-on lire sur une pancarte à l’entrée de la première centrale solaire d’envergure en Afrique de l’Est.
  • (11) After his appearance on La Ruota della Fortuna , Renzi went home with 48m lire (about £20,000) in his pocket.
  • (12) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
  • (13) Latency of initial response to escape (LIRE) and latency of escape (LE) were measured in seconds.
  • (14) A new study of Keynes’s attempts to make money out of movements in the pound against five major currencies of his day – the dollar, French franc, German mark, Italian lire and Dutch guilder – comes to a stark conclusion.

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