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lay: to set down, to place or put an item down
lie: to recline

Lie The noun lie has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (13) lie, prevarication -- (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
2. Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie -- (Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968))
3. lie -- (position or manner in which something is situated)

The verb lie has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)

1. (89) lie -- (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)
2. (58) lie -- (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf")
3. (15) dwell, consist, lie, belong, lie in -- (originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country")
4. (14) lie -- (be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant")
5. (9) lie -- (tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29")
6. (4) lie, rest -- (have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies")
7. (4) lie down, lie -- (assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better")

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Synonyms: 3 senses of lie

Sense 1
lie, prevarication -- (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth -- (a false statement)

Sense 2
Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie -- (Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968))
INSTANCE OF=> diplomat, diplomatist -- (an official engaged in international negotiations)

Sense 3
lie -- (position or manner in which something is situated)
=> position, place -- (the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place")

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Coordinate Terms: 3 senses of lie

Sense 1
lie, prevarication -- (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
-> falsehood, falsity, untruth -- (a false statement)
=> dodge, dodging, scheme -- (a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery)
=> lie, prevarication -- (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
=> fabrication, fiction, fable -- (a deliberately false or improbable account)
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception -- (a misleading falsehood)
=> contradiction, contradiction in terms -- ((logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction")

Sense 2
Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie -- (Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968))
-> diplomat, diplomatist -- (an official engaged in international negotiations)
=> ambassador, embassador -- (a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another)
=> charge d'affaires -- (the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador)
=> consul -- (a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country)
=> envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary -- (a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador)
=> high commissioner -- (a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank)
=> internuncio -- ((Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio)
=> minister, diplomatic minister -- (a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador)
=> nuncio, papal nuncio -- ((Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status)
=> persona grata -- (a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent)
=> persona non grata -- (a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent)
=> plenipotentiary -- (a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government)
HAS INSTANCE=> Bunche, Ralph Bunche, Ralph Johnson Bunche -- (United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971))
HAS INSTANCE=> Dulles, John Foster Dulles -- (United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959))
HAS INSTANCE=> Galbraith, John Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith -- (United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908))
HAS INSTANCE=> Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet -- (French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834))
HAS INSTANCE=> Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot -- (Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645))
HAS INSTANCE=> Hammarskjold, Dag Hammarskjold, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold -- (Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peacekeeping matters (1905-1961))
HAS INSTANCE=> Harriman, Averell Harriman, William Averell Harriman -- (United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986))
HAS INSTANCE=> Harris, Townsend Harris -- (United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878))
HAS INSTANCE=> Hull, Cordell Hull -- (United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955))
HAS INSTANCE=> Jay, John Jay -- (United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829))
HAS INSTANCE=> Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Henry Alfred Kissinger -- (United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923))
HAS INSTANCE=> Le Duc Tho -- (Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990))
HAS INSTANCE=> Lesseps, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps -- (French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894))
HAS INSTANCE=> Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie -- (Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968))
HAS INSTANCE=> Nicolson, Harold Nicolson, Sir Harold George Nicolson -- (English diplomat and author (1886-1968))
HAS INSTANCE=> Page, Thomas Nelson Page -- (United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922))
HAS INSTANCE=> Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- (wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962))
HAS INSTANCE=> Stevenson, Adlai Stevenson, Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- (United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968))
HAS INSTANCE=> Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim -- (Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918))

Sense 3
lie -- (position or manner in which something is situated)
-> position, place -- (the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place")
=> half-mast -- (a position some distance below the top of the mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress)
=> lead -- ((baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; "he took a long lead off first")
=> pole position -- (the most favorable position at the start of a race)
=> polls -- (the place where people vote)
=> pride of place -- (the first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place)
=> anomaly -- ((astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun))
=> site, situation -- (physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides")
=> setting -- (the physical position of something; "he changed the setting on the thermostat")
=> juxtaposition -- (a side-by-side position)
=> lie -- (position or manner in which something is situated)
=> post, station -- (the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station")
=> pitch -- (a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk); "he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors")
=> landmark -- (the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; "the church steeple provided a convenient landmark")
=> right -- (location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he stood on the right")
=> left -- (location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east; "she stood on the left")
=> back, rear -- (the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store")
=> front -- (the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage")
=> stand -- (the position where a thing or person stands)
=> station -- ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)
=> vantage -- (place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective))