Lie

  • 101Lie Zi — Taoísta citado muchas veces en el Zhuang Zi. No es seguro que existiera en realidad El libro conocido como Lie Zi se atribuye a este taoísta y aparece en el almanaque de la biblioteca del emperador bajo el título de Tratado del vacío perfecto …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 102lie — See lay, lie …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 103lie on — phr verb Lie on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bed, ↑couch, ↑settee, ↑sofa, ↑stomach …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 104lie in — Synonyms and related words: abide in, approach anchorage, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be confined, be constituted by, be contained in, be found, be located, be present in, be situated, bear, bear a child, bear down on, bear down upon,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 105lie on — Synonyms and related words: abut on, be based on, be contingent on, be dependent on, be predicated on, bear hard upon, bear on, bear upon, bestraddle, bestride, burden, depend, depend on, go hard with, go ill with, hang, hang on, hinge, hinge on …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 106lié — affilié allié angustifolié bacheliers bateliers bilié béliers cavaliers chanceliers chapeliers chevaliers cilié concilié céréaliers domicilié défolié délié démultiplié déplié familiers folié fourmiliers frontaliers geôliers hospitaliers humilié… …

    Dictionnaire des rimes

  • 107lie — [OE] English has two words lie. The verb ‘recline’ goes back, together with its Germanic relatives (German liegen, Dutch liggen, Swedish ligga. Danish ligge), to a prehistoric base *leg , a variant of the base *lag which produced lay. Both come… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 108lie\ to — v Of a ship: to stay in one place facing against the wind; stop. Our ship will lie to outside the harbor until daylight. Compare: lay to(2) …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 109lie in —    to await the imminent birth of a child    Greek, Latin, and Teutonic roots of lie all mean bed where, in the language of euphemism, you only give birth or copulate:     Within ten days she ll be lying in. (Graves, 1940)    A lying in wife was… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 110lie in — 1》 Brit. remain in bed later than usual. 2》 archaic (of a pregnant woman) go to bed to give birth. → lie …

    English new terms dictionary