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Dissolving vs Lying - What's the difference?

dissolving | lying |

As verbs the difference between dissolving and lying

is that dissolving is while lying is .

As nouns the difference between dissolving and lying

is that dissolving is the act by which something dissolves while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

dissolving

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something dissolves.
  • * 2009 , Gregor Damschen, ?Robert Schnepf, ?Karsten Stüber, Debating Dispositions
    • For example, the only manifestation of solubility is dissolving, and being immersed in liquid is its only circumstances of manifestation. Perhaps there are some differences between particular immersions or dissolvings , but they must be similar enough

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

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  • * 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?