What's the difference between lier and lyre?

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.

Lyre


Definition:

  • (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
  • (n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
  • (2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
  • (3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
  • (4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
  • (5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
  • (6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.