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Basking vs Lying - What's the difference?

basking | lying |

As verbs the difference between basking and lying

is that basking is present participle of lang=en while lying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between basking and lying

is that basking is the act of one who basks while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

basking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * basking shark

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who basks.
  • * 1999 , Linda Simon, William James Remembered
    • With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short

    Anagrams

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    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?