different between joker vs lie

English

Etymology

joke +? -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

joker (plural jokers)

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.

   Synonyms: court jester, fool, jester

4. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
5. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

6. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
7. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
   • 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)

     Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.

   • 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons (volume 218, page 858)

     Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]

   • 1942, Billboard (volume 54, number 41, page 5)

     Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.

   • 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting (page 12)

     The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.

Related terms

• joke

See also

• ????, ????, ????

Translations

See also

See also

• Wikipedia article on jokers (jesters)
• Wikipedia article on the joker (playing card)
• Wikipedia article on the Joker in Batman

Anagrams

• jerko

Danish

Etymology

From English joker.

Noun

joker

1. joker (playing card)

Declension

Further reading

• “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jo?k?r/
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Noun

joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)

1. joker (playing card)
2. any wild card or similar, even in non-card games

Derived terms

• voor joker staan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o.kœ?/, [d?o??.kœ?]

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. (card games) joker
2. (computing) wildcard
3. (on a game show) lifeline
4. (Scrabble) blank tile

See also

Further reading

• “joker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Alternative forms

• d?oker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.k?r/

Noun

joker m anim

1. (card games) joker

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. Alternative form of jóquer

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French joker, English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??o.k?r/

Noun

joker m (plural jokeri)

1. (card games) joker

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: lye, lai

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English li??an, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.

Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic ???????????????????? (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luighe, Russian ??????? (ležát?), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).

As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.

Verb

lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay, past participle lain or (obsolete) lien)

2. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
   • The watchful traveller […] / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.

   • 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

     Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
3. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
4. (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.

5. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
   • He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.

6. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
7. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
8. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
   • 1632, John Evelyn, diary, entry 21 October 1632

     While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, […] where I lay one night only.

   • Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.

9. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
10. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
    • 1737, lies%20in%20this%20case%22&f=false Cart against Marsh (legal case)

      An appeal lies in this case from the ordinary to the arches.

Conjugation

Usage notes

See the usage notes at lay.

Derived terms

Related terms

• lay, a corresponding transitive version of this word
• lees
• lier

Translations

Noun

lie (plural lies)

1. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
2. (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
3. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
4. A manner of lying; relative position.
5. An animal's lair.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lien (“to lie, tell a falsehood”), from Old English l?ogan (“to lie”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leugan? (“to lie”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg?- (“to lie, swear, bemoan”).

Cognate with West Frisian lige (“to lie”), Low German legen, lögen (“to lie”), Dutch liegen (“to lie”), German lügen (“to lie”), Norwegian ljuge/lyge (“to lie”), Danish lyve (“to lie”), Swedish ljuga (“to lie”), and more distantly with Bulgarian ???? (l?ža, “to lie”), Russian ????? (lgat?, “to lie”), ???? (lož?, “falsehood”).

Verb

lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past and past participle lied)

2. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.

   While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical. The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to lie in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life.^WP

3. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• prevaricate

Derived terms

• belie
• liar
• lie along
• lie through one's teeth

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English lie, from Old English ly?e (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg?- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lug?, lugin (“a lie”) (German Lüge), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian ????? (l?žá, “? lie”), Russian ???? (lož?, “? lie”).

Noun

lie (plural lies)

1. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.

   Synonyms: alternative fact, bullshit, deception, falsehood, fib, leasing, prevarication; see also Thesaurus:lie

   Antonym: truth

2. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.

   Synonym: half-truth

3. (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, the Story of Justin Martyr

     Wishing this lie of life was o'er.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• lie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• %ile, -ile, EIL, Eli, Ile, Lei, Lei., ile, lei

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lie?/, [?lie??]
• IPA^(key): /?lie??/, [?lie??(?)]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: lie

Verb

lie

1. (colloquial) third-person singular potential present of olla

   Se on missä lie.

   It's somewhere. / I wonder where it is.

   Tai mitä lie ovatkaan

   Or whatever they are.

Usage notes

• This form is chiefly used in direct and indirect questions.

Synonyms

• (3rd-pers. sg. potent. pres. of olla; standard) lienee

Anagrams

• eli, lei

French

Etymology

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *liga (“silt, sediment”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie, to lay”).

Noun

lie f (plural lies)

1. lees, dregs (of wine, of society)

Verb

lie

1. inflection of lier:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “lie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• île

Mandarin

Romanization

lie (Zhuyin ????)

1. Pinyin transcription of ?

lie

1. Nonstandard spelling of li?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lié.
3. Nonstandard spelling of li?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of liè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligy?, *legy? (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legy? (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie”).

Noun

lie f (oblique plural lies, nominative singular lie, nominative plural lies)

1. dregs; mostly solid, undesirable leftovers of a drink

Descendants

• ? English: lees

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *l?wanks (compare *l?wos), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?w- (“stone”) (compare Ancient Greek ???? (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??i.e/

Noun

lie m (genitive lïac(c))

1. a stone
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^d15

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 65^a1

Declension

Descendants

• ? Breton: liac'h
• Middle Irish: lía
  • Irish: lia

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 lía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

lie

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of liar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of liar.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish l?e, l?, from Old Norse lé, from Proto-Germanic *lewô, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/

Noun

lie c

1. scythe; an instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like.

Declension

Related terms

• lieblad
• liehugg
• lieknagg
• lieknagge
• lieman
• lieorv
• lieskaft
• lietag

References

• lie in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)