Lie vs Bug - What's the difference?
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(label) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* 1849 , (Henry David Thoreau), (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= (label) To be placed or situated.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; used with in .
* (Arthur Collier) (1680-1732)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
(label) To lodge; to sleep.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
* Ch. J. Parsons
(golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
(medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
To give false information intentionally.
To convey a false image or impression.
An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
Anything that misleads or disappoints.
* (rfdate) Trench:
An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
(colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.
* {{quote-book, year= 1878
, year_published= 1989
, quotee= (Thomas Edison)
, author= Thomas P. Hughes
, quoted_in= American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention
, url=
, title=Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers
, type= cited by
, chapter=
, section=
, isbn= 0-14-009741-4
, edition=
, publisher= Penguin Books
, location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J.
, editor=
, volume=
, page= 75
, passage= I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs " -- as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.
}}
A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
An electronic intercept device
A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
(broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments
A semi-automated telegraph key
* 1938 , Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport , page 257:
* 1942 , Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual , page 134:
* 1986 , E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair , page 282:
(obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
* Shakespeare
HIV.
(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
(informal) To annoy.
To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
As a verb lie
is .As a noun bug is
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English
(wikipedia lie)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . As a noun for position, the .Verb
- The watchful traveller / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.
- Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
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- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
- Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
- He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.
- While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, where I lay one night only.
- Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.
- The wind is loud and will not lie .
- An appeal lies in this case.
Derived terms
* a lie has no legs * let sleeping dogs lie * lie back * lie by * lie doggo * lie down * lie ill in one's mouth * lie in * lie-in * lie in wait * lie low * lie upon * lie with * make one's bed and lie in it * therein lies the rubNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- When Pinocchio lies , his nose grows.
- If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
- While a principle-based approach might claim that lying''' is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, '''lying''' might or might not be illegal or unethical. The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to '''lie''' in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that '''lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life. (w)
- Photos often lie .
- Hips don't lie .
Derived terms
* lie through one's teethEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
- Wishing this lie of life was o'er.
Synonyms
* bullshit * deception * falsehood * fib * leasing * prevaricationAntonyms
* truthDerived terms
* barefaced lie * belie * big lie * give lie to * give the lie to * I tell a lie * lie detector * * white lieStatistics
*Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----bug
English
(wikipedia bug)Noun
(en noun)- These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
- The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
- He’s got the flu bug .
- I think he’s a gold bug , he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
- to catch the skiing bug
- We installed a bug in her telephone
- He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
- Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show
- At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug , as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.
- As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.
- I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug . That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.
- Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.Synonyms
* (An intercept device) wiretap * See alsoDerived terms
* buglet * debugSee also
* Balmain bug * bedbug * bug-eyed * gold bug * lightning bug * mealybug * mirid bug * Morton Bay bug * shield bug * snug as a bug in a rug * travel bug * true bugVerb
- Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
- We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.