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Dier vs Lier - What's the difference?

dier | lier |

As a noun dier

is door.

As a proper noun lier is

a city in the province of antwerp, belgium or lier can be a municipality in buskerud, norway.

dier

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who dies.
  • * Don DeLillo, White Noise
    • It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier .
  • * 2006 , Shankar Mokashi Punekar, Awadheswari
    • Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.
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    lier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that lies, in the sense of being horizontal.

    • See also

    * liar

    Anagrams

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