What's the difference between lying and planking?

Lying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

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.

Planking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plank
  • (n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
  • (n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, gene diffusion in energy space is described by the Focker--Plank's equation.
  • (2) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
  • (3) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
  • (4) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
  • (5) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
  • (6) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
  • (7) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (8) A central plank of the Conservative campaign for the local elections later this month – that its councils guarantee lower levels of council tax – has been challenged by new figures which show that the Tories are responsible for the highest increases.
  • (9) In a central plank of plans to cut the deficit, the government is capping the annual bill for tax credits and housing benefit to £119.5bn this year – despite forecasts that millions of people face rocketing rent charges and low wage rises.
  • (10) The tactic is a key plank of police planning to ensure the Games are not disrupted.
  • (11) The results provide two planks of support for Woodworth's hypothesis.
  • (12) That means shaking up the mutual's board, which is made up of 20 members elected from all corners of the co-operative empire and regarded as a key plank of the group's claim to be a democratic organisation.
  • (13) Zinke also differed from many in his own party by insisting: “I’m absolutely against transfer or sale of public lands.” Many Republicans have long pushed for the federal government to transfer ownership of public lands to the states, and this was included as a plank in the party’s platform.
  • (14) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
  • (15) You can build your own with a few planks of wood, or cut the bottom off an old bin.
  • (16) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
  • (17) In collaboration with other leading economists, he has championed a state-backed investment bank to boost lending to small and medium-sized businesses as a major plank of a growth package.
  • (18) The notion that sterling is a shared asset has been a key plank in Salmond's case that Scotland has a clear moral and legal case to have a formal currency zone, but it has been challenged by senior economists, who say a currency is only a system of exchange or a liability.
  • (19) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
  • (20) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.