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Lien vs Lying - What's the difference?

lien | lying |

As nouns the difference between lien and lying

is that lien is a tendon while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As verbs the difference between lien and lying

is that lien is alternative form of lang=en while lying is present participle of lang=en.

lien

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A tendon.
  • (legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
    • Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lien")

    Derived terms

    * lienholder

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Bible, archaic)
    • If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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?