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Situate vs Lying - What's the difference?

situate | lying |

As verbs the difference between situate and lying

is that situate is to place on or into a physical location most commonly used adjectivally in past participle while lying is .

As an adjective situate

is situated.

As a noun lying is

an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

situate

English

Alternative forms

* scituate

Verb

(situat)
  • To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
    • The statue is situated''' in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area '''situated behind the building.
  • To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
    • The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

    Related terms

    * site * situation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated.
  • * , II.ii.3:
    • Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
  • * Milton
    • Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

    External links

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    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?