Lie-detector

Definition

lie 1 / laÇ / v ( pt, pp lied ; pres p lying ) ၁။ ~ (to sb) (about sth) လိမ္ေျပာသည္။ မုသားဆိုသည္။ You could see from the expression on his face that he was lying. ❍ Don’t lie to me! ❍ She lies about her age. ၂။ ညာသည္။ လွည့္စားသည္။ The camera cannot lie. n မုသား။ His story is nothing but a pack of lies. ❍ That’s a complete lie! See also WHITE LIE ❏ give the lie to sth [ IDM ] အလိမ္ေပၚေစသည္။ These figures give the lie to reports that business is declining. ❏ lie-detector n အလိမ္ဖမ္းစက္။ အမွန္ကို ေျပာမေျပာ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ စက္ကိရိယာ။ take a lie-detector test. ❏ lie through one’s teeth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဇြတ္မိွတ္ ညာသည္။ ၾကက္ေျခတစ္ေခ်ာင္းလုပ္သည္။ The witness was clearly lying through his teeth. ❏ lie one’s way into / out of sth [ IDM ] ႏွစ္ေပါက္ တစ္ေပါက္႐ိုက္၍…။ He’s lied his way into the job. ❍ LIE 2 lie 2 / laÇ / v ( pt lay / leÇ / ; pp lain / leÇn/; pres p lying ) ၁။ လဲသည္။ ေလ်ာင္းသည္။ lie on one’s back / side / front တည္ရိွသည္။ ❍ The corpse lay face down in a pool of blood. ❍ The dog was lying fast asleep by the fire. ၂။ (ျပန္႔ႀကဲ၊ ပြင့္လ်က္သား စသည္) ရိွသည္။ Clothes were lying (about) all over the floor. ❍ The book lay open on his desk. ၃။ ရိွေနသည္။ snow lying thick on the ground ❍ These machines have lain idle since the factory closed. ❍ a ship lying at anchor. ေက်ာက္ခ် ထားေသာသေဘၤာ။ ❍ I’d rather use my money than leave it lying in the bank. ငါ့ပိုက္ဆံကို ဘဏ္ထဲမွာထားမည့္အစား သံုးပစ္မွာေပါ့။ ၄။ (ေရွ႕မွာ၊ ေအာက္မွာစသည္)ရိွသည္။ The valley lay below us. ❍ ( fig ) You’re still young — your whole life lies ahead of/before you! ၅။ တည္ရိွသည္။ The town lies on the coast. ၆။ ~ (in sth) ရိွသည္။ It’s obvious where our interests lie (ie which course of action, etc is to our advantage). ❍ The problem lies in deciding when to intervene. ၇။ လိုက္ေနသည္။ ရိွသည္။ Thompson is lying in fourth place. ❍ After five matches Derby are lying second. n [sing] တည္ရာ။ He found his ball in a difficult lie. သူ႕ေဂါက္သီး ကတ္သီးကတ္သတ္ ေနရာတြင္ က်ေနေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ရသည္။ ❏ lie back [ PHRV ] သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာ၊ နားနားေနေန။ ဘာမွ်မလုပ္ဘဲေနသည္။ You don’t have to do anything — just lie back and enjoy the journey. ❏ lie behind sth [ PHRV ] ေနာက္ခံ အေၾကာင္းရင္း ရိွသည္။ What lay behind this strange outburst? ❏ lie doggo [ IDM ] ၿငိမ္ကုပ္ေနသည္။ မလႈပ္မယွက္ေနသည္။ ❏ lie down [ PHRV ] ေျခဆင္းလဲလူေနသည္။ Go and lie down for a while. ❍ He lay down on the sofa and soon fell asleep. ❏ lie-down n (usu sing ) ( Brit infml ) တစ္ေမွးမွ် အိပ္စက္ ျခင္း။ ❏ lie heavy on sb/sth [ IDM ] စိတ္ေလးသည္။ မအီမလည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ a crime lying heavy on one’s conscience ❍ The responsibilities of management lay heavy on him. ❍ The rich meal lay heavy on my stomach. ❏ lie in ( Brit ); ( US ) sleep in [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေနျမင့္ေအာင္ အိပ္ရာထဲေနသည္။ ေနာက္က်အိပ္ရာ ထသည္။ It’s a holiday tomorrow, so you can lie in. ❏ lie-in n (usu sing ) ( infml esp Brit ) ခါတိုင္းထက္ အိပ္ရာထေနာက္က်ျခင္း။ look forward to a nice long lie-in on Sunday. ❏ lie in state [ IDM ] (အမ်ား ဂါရဝျပဳႏိုင္ရန္ အေလာင္းကို) ခမ္းခမ္းနားနား ျပင္ဆင္ထားသည္။ ❏ lie in wait (for sb) [ IDM ] အလစ္ေခ်ာင္းေနသည္။ He was surrounded by reporters who had been lying in wait for him. ❏ lie low [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပုန္းေအာင္းေနသည္။ The thieves decided to lie low for a while after the robbery. ❏ the lie of the land ; ( US ) the lay of the land [ IDM ] ၁။ ေျမျပင္အေနအထား။ ေျမျပင္အေျခအေန။ ၂။ ( infml ) အေျခအေန။ I’ll need to discover the lie of the land before making any decisions about the future of the business. ❏ lie with sb (to do sth) [ PHRV ] ( fml ) (အေပၚ) တည္သည္။ The decision on whether to proceed lies with the Governor. ❍ It lies with you to accept or reject the proposal. ❏ take sth lying down [ IDM ] ငံု႔ခံသည္။

Examples

1. [lie on/in etc] : She was lying on the bed watching television.
2. [lie still/awake/unconscious etc] : I lay awake worrying about work.
3. [lie on your back/side/stomach etc] : Emma was lying on her back in the sunshine.
4. Go and lie on the bed until you feel better.
5. There were clothes lying all over the floor.
6. The village lies in a valley.
7. The farm lay a few miles to the north.
8. Here lies the body of James McDonald.
9. O’Connell is currently lying in second position in the world championship.
10. As we go into the third round
11. Evans is lying in third place.
12. He must decide where his future lies (=what he is going to do with his life).
13. [lie in] : The difficulty lies in knowing what to do next.
14. The castle lay in ruins.
15. Her bag was lying open on the table.
16. My main interest lies in the development of new technology.
17. It was obvious that she was lying.
18. [lie about] : He had to lie about his age to get into the army.
19. [lie to] : She admitted lying to the police.
20. [lie through your teeth] : They say they’re not married but they’re lying through their teeth.
21. The results of these surveys often lie.
22. I like Lucy
23. I won't lie to you.