lie a long time

  • 1long weekend — UK US noun [countable] [singular long weekend plural long weekends] a weekend when you have one or two extra days free in addition to the usual Saturday and Sunday Thesaurus: weeks and weekendshyponym …

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  • 2Lie — For other uses, see Lie (disambiguation) A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others. To lie is to state something with disregard to… …

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  • 3lie — lie1 [ laı ] (present participle lying [ laııŋ ] ; past tense lay [ leı ] ; past participle lain [ leın ] ) verb intransitive *** ▸ 1 be/put yourself flat ▸ 2 be in place/on surface ▸ 3 in a competition ▸ 4 consist of ▸ 5 be in particular state ▸ …

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  • 4lie — I [[t]la͟ɪ[/t]] POSITION OR SITUATION ♦♦ lies, lying, lay, lain (Please look at category 11 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) VERB If you are lying somewhere, you are in a horizontal position and… …

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  • 5Long Day's Journey into Night — For the film, see Long Day s Journey Into Night (1962 film). Long Day s Journey Into Night Original window card, 1956 Written by Eugene O Neill …

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  • 6Time to digital converter — In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time to digital converter (abbreviated TDC) is a device for converting a signal of sporadic pulses into a digital representation of their time indices. In other words, a TDC outputs the time… …

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  • 7lie doggo — [“lai “dogo] in. to remain unrecognized (for a long time). (See also doggo. Old, but standard English.) □ This problem has lain doggo since 1967. □ If you don’t find the typos now, they will lie doggo until the next edition …

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  • 8lie-in — noun a long stay in bed in the morning • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑rest, ↑ …

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  • 9lie — lie1 W1S2 [laı] v past tense lay [leı] past participle lain [leın] present participle lying third person singular lies ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(flat position)¦ 2¦(exist)¦ 3¦(place)¦ 4¦(future)¦ …

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  • 10lie — 1 /laI/ verb present participle lyingpast tense lay, past participle lain /leIn/ 1 FLAT POSITION a) (intransitive always + adv/prep) to be in a position in which your body is flat on the floor, on a bed etc (+ on/in/there etc): He was lying on… …

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