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Lie

[lee]
–noun
1. Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
2. (Ma⋅ri⋅us) So⋅phus [mah-ree-oos soh-foos] , 1842–99, Norwegian mathematician.
3. Tryg⋅ve Halv⋅dan [trig-vuh hahlv-dahn; Norw. tryg-vuh hahlv-dahn] , 1896–1968, Norwegian statesman: secretary-general of the United Nations 1946–53.
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Main Entry: lie
Pronunciation: 'lI
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Forms: lay /'lA/; lain /'lAn/; ly·ing
: to be sustainable or capable of being maintained : have grounds under the law lie —Scott v. Bradford, 606 Pacific Reporter, Second Series 554 (1979)> lie for misstatements of opinion —W. L. Prosser and W. Pacific Reporter Keeton> lie to the…Circuit Court —D. Q. Posin>—lie in grant : to be transferable legally only by grant
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Medical Dictionary

lie (lī)
n.
The manner or position in which something is situated, especially the relation that the long axis of a fetus bears to that of its mother.

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Marius Sophus Lie

Norwegian mathematician who founded the theory of continuous groups and their applications to the theory of differential equations. His investigations led to one of the major branches of 20th-century mathematics, the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras

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