Lying vs Prank - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between lying and prank

is that lying is present participle of lang=en while prank is to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

As nouns the difference between lying and prank

is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while prank is an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

As an adjective prank is

full of gambols or tricks.

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?

prank

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

*, II.4.2.ii:

Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.

A practical joke or mischievous trick.

* Shakespeare

His pranks have been too broad to bear with.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

The harpies played their accustomed pranks .

Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.

He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* prankish * pranksome * prankster

Verb

To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

* Spenser

In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .

* 1748 , , B:II

And there a Sea?on atween June and May,

Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,

A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,

No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.

* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3

''Flora, wanton-eyed

''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:

To make ostentatious show.

* M. Arnold

White houses prank where once were huts.

To perform a practical joke on; to trick.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 13, author=Karen Crouse, title=Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp, work=New York Times citation

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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up

Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.

I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?

Synonyms

(call and promptly hang up) missed call, missed-call

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.

(Webster 1913) English transitive verbs