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lie

1. the hiding place or lair of an animal
2. Golf
a. the position of the ball after a shot
b. the angle made by the shaft of the club before the upswing

Lie

Trygve Halvdan . 1896--1968, Norwegian statesman; first secretary-general of the United Nations (1946--52)
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LiE

A symbolic mathematics package aimed at Lie groups.

["LiE, a Package for Lie Group Computations", M.A.A. van Leeuwen et al, in Computer Algebra Nederland, 1992 (ISBN 90-741160-02-7)].
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Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as ''prevaricator'' and ''sagacious'' in favor of words more commonly used in school and on the job.
This is what the prevaricator does when he tries to impose his opinion on others.
Is he simply demonstrating the entanglements that are caused by the prevaricator don Garcia without ever attributing judgment?
At the time, such efforts by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, special envoy Scott Gration, and part-time envoy and prevaricator Senator John Kerry attempted to foist on Juba more "compromises" than were already embodied in the Abyei Protocol of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA, 2005) and the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on Abyei's boundaries (July 2009).
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Mother Superior now loses her temper and waspishly retorts that there's no need to go to such extremes, Paolina must learn not to exaggerate or else she's a prevaricator. The girl's fascinated by this mysterious new word and innocently asks: what does prevaricator mean?
Netanyahu is a world-class prevaricator, with this quality on display throughout his remarks.
This does not mean abandoning negotiations, but rather doing away with the likes of the Quartet, whose feats include appointing Tony Blair as an inept envoy, and becoming a dispenser of vapid statements and a prevaricator that obstructs the tackling of issues on the ground.
"I like people and it is surprising what they will tell you when you are out and about and it very useful to know." Speaking at the CBI annual lunch event in Cardiff last Friday the First Minister told his business audience: "One thing you cannot say about Edwina is that she is a prevaricator. "She is someone who will give you a straight answer and will take decisions that we need and quickly.
The image of the "flying Pope", titled Agent Prevaricator, was created by the artist iRat, in response to the Papal visit, and Corke says it has already generated both positive and negative responses from those who have seen it above the gallery.
There were glimpses of the old prevaricator when he refused to say why he did not publicly back South Shields MP David Miliband as the next Labour leader.
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