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Lays vs Lying - What's the difference?

lays | lying |

As nouns the difference between lays and lying

is that lays is plural of lang=en while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As verbs the difference between lays and lying

is that lays is third-person singular of lay while lying is present participle of lang=en.

lays

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (lay)
  • Anagrams

    * slay

    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?