| lying |
| 1. v. present participle of lie (to rest in a horizontal position id=to rest. | |
| 2. n. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. | |
| 3. v. present participle of lie (to intentionally give false information) id=false. | |
| 4. n. An act of telling a lie or falsehood. | |
| lie |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. | |
| The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated. | |
| 3. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition. | |
| to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; 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. | |
| 4. v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist. | |
| 5. v. Used with with: to have sexual relations with. | |
| 6. v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep. | |
| 7. v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. | |
| 8. v. (legal) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. | |
| 9. n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck. | |
| 10. n. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown. | |
| 11. n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive. | |
| When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows. | |
| If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty. | |
| While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or une | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression. | |
| Photographs often lie. | |
| Hips don't lie. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To succeed or excel at lying; lie successfully; show one's expertise or mastery in the art of lying. | |
| Wow, that boy can really lie! | |
| 15. v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information. | |
| Sorry, I haven't seen your keys anywhere...wait, I lied! They're right there on the coffee table. | |
| 16. n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood. | |
| I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression. | |
| 17. n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth | |
| 18. n. Anything that misleads or disappoints. | |
| flat |
| 1. adj. Having no variations in height. | |
| The land around here is flat. | |
| 2. adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch. | |
| 3. adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all. | |
| That girl is completely flat on both sides. | |
| 4. adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone. | |
| 5. adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be. | |
| Your A string is too flat. | |
| 6. adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture. | |
| 7. adj. Uninteresting. | |
| The party was a bit flat. | |
| 8. adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles. | |
| 9. adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet. | |
| 10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead. | |
| 11. adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless. | |
| 12. adj. (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring. | |
| The market is flat. | |
| The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting. | |
| 13. adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory. | |
| His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results. | |
| I'm not going to the party and that's flat. | |
| 14. adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant | |
| 15. adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "t | |
| Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English. | |
| 16. adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft. | |
| 17. adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends. | |
| 18. adj. (authorship figuratively, esp. of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional. | |
| The author created the site to flesh out the books' flatter characters, who were actually quite well developed in her own mind. | |
| 19. adv. So as to be flat. | |
| Spread the tablecloth flat over the table. | |
| 20. adv. Bluntly. | |
| I asked him if he wanted to marry me and he turned me down flat. | |
| 21. adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding. | |
| He can run a mile in four minutes flat. | |
| 22. adv. Completely. | |
| I am flat broke this month. | |
| 23. adv. Directly; flatly. | |
| 24. adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest. | |
| 25. n. An area of level ground. | |
| 26. n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪). | |
| 27. n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire. | |
| 28. n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels. | |
| She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels. | |
| 29. n. (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes. | |
| 30. n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting. | |
| 31. n. The flat part of something: | |
| 32. n. (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge. | |
| 33. n. The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers. | |
| 34. n. A wide, shallow container. | |
| a flat of strawberries | |
| 35. n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes. | |
| 36. n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension. | |
| 37. n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. | |
| 38. n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. | |
| 39. n. (rail, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar. | |
| 40. n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions. | |
| 41. n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. | |
| 42. n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton. | |
| 43. n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop. | |
| 44. v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising. | |
| 45. v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | |
| 46. v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch. | |
| 47. v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. | |
| 48. v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. | |
| 50. n. (chiefly British, New England, New Zealand, and Australian, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room. | |
| facedown |
| 1. adv. Alternative form of face-down | |
