Usually means: Intentional false statement to deceive.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lie, lie: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lie, lie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lie, lie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lie, lie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lie, lie, lie, lie: Wordnik
  7. lie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lie, lie: Wiktionary
  9. lie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lie, lie: Dictionary.com
  13. lie (n.), lie (v.1), lie (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. L.I.E, L.I.E. (film), LIE (film), LIE, Lie (Dream Theater single), Lie (Lukas Graham song), Lie (NF song), Lie (album), Lie (disambiguation), Lie (film), Lie (song), Lie (surname), Lie, The Lie (Lost), The Lie (game show), The Lie (poem), The Lie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lie: Rhymezone
  19. lie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lie: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LIE, lie: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Lie, Lie: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. lie: Free Dictionary
  24. lie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Lie: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. lie: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lie: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. lie: Legal dictionary
  4. lie: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LiE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lie: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. LIE: Acronym Finder
  4. LIE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. lie: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lie: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lie, lie, lie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. lie: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Lie: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LIE (BIND), LIE: French-English Wine Glossary

(Note: See lain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
verb:  (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
verb:  Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
verb:  Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
verb:  Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
verb:  (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
verb:  To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
verb:  (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
noun:  (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
noun:  (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
noun:  (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
noun:  A manner of lying; relative position.
noun:  An animal's lair.
verb:  (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
verb:  (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
noun:  An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
noun:  A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
noun:  (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
noun:  (attributive) A Norwegian surname.
noun:  Initialism of Long Island Expressway (“I-495”).

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