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lie-detector

lie-detector is the alternative form of lie detector.

Meaning of lie detector

Noun

lie detector (plural lie detectors)

  1. (informal) A device designed to detect or indicate when a person is lying by measuring and recording several physiological variables.
    • It is a lie detector; with its aid one can plumb the bottomless pits of a chap's subconscious mind, and fathom all the mysteries of his subliminal ego.1909, Charles Edmonds Walk, The Yellow Circle, page 69

Forms of lie-detector

plurallie-detectors

Questions about lie-detector

What is lie-detector the alternative form of?
Lie-detector is the alternative form of lie detector.

Words near lie-detector in the dictionary

  1. lie with
  2. lie-abed
  3. lie-abeds
  4. lie-beral
  5. lie-berals
  6. lie-detector
  7. lie-detectors
  8. lie-down
  9. lie-downs
  10. lie-in
  11. lie-ins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lie-detector (page history and authors); lie detector (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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