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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
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Meaning of "lie in" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LIE IN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIE IN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lie in is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb lie in in English.

WHAT DOES LIE IN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lie in in the English dictionary

The first definition of lie in in the dictionary is to remain in bed late in the morning. Other definition of lie in is to be confined in childbirth. Lie in is also a long stay in bed in the morning.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LIE IN

PRESENT

Present
I lie in
you lie in
he/she/it lies in
we lie in
you lie in
they lie in
Present continuous
I am lying in
you are lying in
he/she/it is lying in
we are lying in
you are lying in
they are lying in
Present perfect
I have lain in
you have lain in
he/she/it has lain in
we have lain in
you have lain in
they have lain in
Present perfect continuous
I have been lying in
you have been lying in
he/she/it has been lying in
we have been lying in
you have been lying in
they have been lying in
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I lay in
you lay in
he/she/it lay in
we lay in
you lay in
they lay in
Past continuous
I was lying in
you were lying in
he/she/it was lying in
we were lying in
you were lying in
they were lying in
Past perfect
I had lain in
you had lain in
he/she/it had lain in
we had lain in
you had lain in
they had lain in
Past perfect continuous
I had been lying in
you had been lying in
he/she/it had been lying in
we had been lying in
you had been lying in
they had been lying in
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will lie in
you will lie in
he/she/it will lie in
we will lie in
you will lie in
they will lie in
Future continuous
I will be lying in
you will be lying in
he/she/it will be lying in
we will be lying in
you will be lying in
they will be lying in
Future perfect
I will have lain in
you will have lain in
he/she/it will have lain in
we will have lain in
you will have lain in
they will have lain in
Future perfect continuous
I will have been lying in
you will have been lying in
he/she/it will have been lying in
we will have been lying in
you will have been lying in
they will have been lying in
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would lie in
you would lie in
he/she/it would lie in
we would lie in
you would lie in
they would lie in
Conditional continuous
I would be lying in
you would be lying in
he/she/it would be lying in
we would be lying in
you would be lying in
they would be lying in
Conditional perfect
I would have lie in
you would have lie in
he/she/it would have lie in
we would have lie in
you would have lie in
they would have lie in
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been lying in
you would have been lying in
he/she/it would have been lying in
we would have been lying in
you would have been lying in
they would have been lying in
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you lie in
we let´s lie in
you lie in
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to lie in
Past participle
lain in
Present Participle
lying in
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIE IN

lie
lie detector
lie down
lie in state
lie in wait
lie low
lie of the land
lie to
lie up
lie-abed
lie-down
lie-in
Liebfrauenmilch
Liebfraumilch
Liebig
Liebig condenser
Liebknecht
Liechtenstein
Liechtensteiner
lied

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIE IN

at home in
cave in
chime in
close in
come in
done in
give in
have in
live in
make a hole in
move in
outside in
phase in
phone in
settle in
take in
tie in
tune in
wire in
write in

Synonyms and antonyms of lie in in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lie in» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIE IN

Find out the translation of lie in to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lie in from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lie in» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

懒觉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quedarse en cama
570 millions of speakers

English

lie in
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रिहायश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرُقَاْدُ فِي الْسَرِيرِ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лежание в постели
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

permanência até tarde na cama
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grasse matinée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berbohong
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausschlafen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

朝寝坊
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

늦잠
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngapusi ing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự ngủ nướng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்ளே பொய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आत या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geç saate kadar yatmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

restare a letto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poranne dłuższe leżenie w łóżku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

n вилежування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lenevire în pat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χουζούρεμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lê in
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sovmorgon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ligge lenge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lie in

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIE IN»

The term «lie in» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.123 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LIE IN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lie in» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lie in» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lie in

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10 QUOTES WITH «LIE IN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lie in.
1
James Agee
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
2
Sherman Alexie
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
3
Mary Astell
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
4
George Ayittey
The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
5
George Ayittey
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
6
Joe Biden
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
7
Dewitt Bodeen
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
8
John Tyler Bonner
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.
9
Daniel J. Boorstin
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
10
Regina Brett
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIE IN»

Discover the use of lie in in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lie in and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned ...
Neil Sheehan, 2009
2
Linear Algebra: An Introduction
A set of three vectors in R3 is linearly dependent if and only if all three vectors lie on the same line or all lie in the same plane. Theorem 3 has an interesting geometrical representation in both R 2 and R 3 . We know from our work in Section ...
Richard Bronson, Gabriel B. Costa, 2007
3
How to Lie with Maps
Even those who hated geography in grammar school might well find a new enthusiasm for the subject after reading Monmonier's lively and surprising book."—Wilson Library Bulletin "A reading of this book will leave you much better defended ...
Mark S. Monmonier, 1996
4
Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments: New and Old Poems, 1957-1997
Hours later in my boathouse, alone, thinking about you and your sudden death, I listen to a grayback gull perched on a piling, cry out sounds that surely must be an entirely incongruous laughter. Tide turning; days of our lives lie in fragments.
George Garrett
5
The Fields Lie in Sunshine Upon the Hill: An Anthology of ...
An Anthology of Short Stories and Poetry Clay McConkie. THE FIELDS LIE IN SUNSHINE UPON THE HILL The fields lie in sunshine upon the hill Dressed in green and daffodil. Earth and sky appear as one, Glistening bright in the summer  ...
Clay McConkie, 2007
6
Book of Lies
'The book of lies' is a witty, instructive, and admirable collection of paradoxes; however, it is not a philosophical or mystical treatise.
Aleister Crowley, 1952
7
Lie Algebras and Applications
The framework of Lie algebras, initially introduced by So- phus Lie in the last part of the 19th century, has been considerably expanded to include graded Lie algebras, infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and other algebraic constructions.
F. Iachello, 2006
8
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics
Remember that most of us accept the fact that there are exceptional circumstances where we are allowed to lie in our daily lives without that becoming accepted behavior in ordinary circumstances. For example, when I was a cadet at West ...
John J. Mearsheimer, 2011
9
A Survey of Lie Groups and Lie Algebra with Applications and ...
Such an ideal would be a proper subspace S of R3, a line or a plane passing through the origin such that the vector cross product x x y of any vector x in S by a vector y in R3 must lie in S. Since the cross product of two vectors is perpendicular ...
Johan G. F. Belinfante, Bernard Kolman, 1989
10
Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods
aVba... |—>...abVa... Since both our operations are involutions, we can consider the orbit of a given diagram with respect to the action of the group generated by these operations. Let us show that all diagrams without A lie in the same orbit.
Anthony Joseph, Anna Melnikov, Ivan Penkov, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIE IN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lie in is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Pluto conspiracy theorists claim New Horizons visit is 'biggest lie in
One claim on Twitter, which was later deleted, described the New Horizons mission as the 'biggest lie in history', according to Gizmodo. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Buffalo Bill?s remains lie in Colorado, but Wyoming begs to differ
GOLDEN, Colo. - Steve Friesen knows he can count on three things in life: death, taxes and the fact that William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody is buried ... «Bend Bulletin, Jul 15»
3
Buffalo Bill's remains lie in Colorado. But Wyoming begs to differ.
Steve Friesen knows he can count on three things in life: death, taxes and the fact that William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is buried here, high atop ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Tests nail NMC officials' lie in clean chit to road contractor
Nagpur: The results of trial pit (tests) carried out by NMC's Quality Control Department exposes that the thickness of a 400-metre stretch road in ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
Tax disasters lie in wait for DIYers
As many pension savers contemplate the new pension freedoms there has been a stark reminder of the potential tax disasters that can lie in ... «FT Adviser, Jul 15»
6
Firearms lie in the open, people mill about
HUBBALLI: You think you've been given the short end of the stick when it comes to space? Wait till you step into the Hubballi Rural police ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
The EU Is Dead: It Just Refuses to Lie Down
It is an old-fashioned cartel whose roots lie in the Confederation of the Rhine and Bonaparte's Continental System. Like those precedents, it is a ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
8
Researchers explore opportunities to extract precious metals that lie …
Norway is fortunate to have deposits that lie in Norwegian territorial waters. Nonetheless, many obstacles may exist. "The rules governing the ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
9
Opinion: Roots of Iran deal lie in Bush era
TODAY IS the worst day of the George W. Bush administration. The deal President Obama has struck with Iran to curb its nuclear weapons ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
10
Big Brother 17 Updates "Jeff Digs a Hole to Lie in" 7:30 PM BBT …
Kitchen- Shlay is making dinner, Meg is done with Vanessa and Austin goes up to also talk to Meg. Austin says that Jason really caused them ... «TVGrapevine.com, Jul 15»

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