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Lie Awake

Definition: Lie Awake

Lie Awake

Verb

1. Lie without sleeping; "She was so worried, she lay awake all night long".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Lie Awake

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Do you lie awake at night thinking of ways to disrupt my husband's campaign? (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)

No ma'am, I lie awake at night and try not to think at all. (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

I lie awake at night thinking about you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

They think we all lie awake dreaming of going to America. (Billion Dollar Brain; writing credit: Len Deighton; John McGrath)

Lyrics

Sometimes I lie awake, night after night (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel)

We lie awake, this wall between us (HOW CAN WE BE LOVERS; performing artist: Michael Bolton)

And when the stars fall I will lie awake, (Goodbye To You; performing artist: Michelle Branch)

I lie awake at night (Angelia; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Lie Awake

AuthorQuotation

Charles M. Schultz

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Lie Awake

Language Translations for "lie awake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

nespat. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ielay awakeay

   

Romanian

  

sta culcat fãrã sã doarmã. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lie Awake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-k-l-w"

-3 letters: akela, alike, awake.

-4 letters: akee, alae, alee, awee, ilea, ilka, kail, kale, keel, lake, leak, leek, leke, like, lwei, wail, wake, wale, walk, weak, weal, week, weel, weka, wile.

-5 letters: aal, ail, ala, ale, awa, awe, awl, eel, eke, elk, ewe, ilk, kae, kea, law, lea, lee, lei, lek, lie, wae, wee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lie Awake


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 65      41 77 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0065      0041 0077 0061 006B 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46757123589677771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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