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Lying vs Peaking - What's the difference?

lying | peaking |

As verbs the difference between lying and peaking

is that lying is while peaking is .

As nouns the difference between lying and peaking

is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while peaking is the act of something reaching a peak.

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?

    peaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something reaching a peak.