Disguise vs Lying - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between disguise and lying

is that disguise is attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As verbs the difference between disguise and lying

is that disguise is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity while lying is present participle of lang=en.

disguise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.

''That cape and mask complete his disguise .

(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.

The act of disguising, notably as a ploy

''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

Synonyms

* camouflage * guise * mask * pretense

Verb

To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

Spies often disguise themselves.

* Macaulay

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

He disguised his true intentions.

(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

* Spectator

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

Synonyms

* cloak * mask * hide

Derived terms

* disguisedly * disguisement * disguiser

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?