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A device designed to detect or indicate when a person is lying by measuring and recording several physiological variables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pathometer, polygraph
Antonyms: none provided
a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: polygraph
From lie + detector. First use appears c. 1909. See cite below.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Cantonese:
測謊器 /测谎器
(caak1 fong1 hei3)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Chinese Cantonese:
測謊儀 /测谎仪
(caak1 fong1 ji4)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Chinese Cantonese:
測謊機 /测谎机
(caak1 fong1 gei1)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Chinese Mandarin:
測謊器 /测谎器
(cèhuǎngqì)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Chinese Mandarin:
測謊儀 /测谎仪
(cèhuǎngyí)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Chinese Mandarin:
測謊機 /测谎机
(cèhuǎngjī)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Danish:
løgnedetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Dutch:
leugendetector
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Faroese:
lygnkanningartól
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Faroese:
lygnavdúkari
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Finnish:
valheenpaljastin
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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French:
détecteur de mensonges
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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German:
Lügendetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Hebrew:
מְכוֹנַת אֱמֶת
(m'chonát emét)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Hungarian:
hazugságvizsgáló
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Icelandic:
lygamælir
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Irish:
brathadóir éithigh
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Japanese:
嘘発見器
(uso-hakkenki)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Korean:
거짓말 탐지기
(geojinmal tamjigi)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Norwegian Bokmål:
løgndetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
lygndetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
løgndetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Persian:
دروغسنج
(doruġ-sanj)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Polish:
wykrywacz kłamstw
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Portuguese:
detector de mentiras
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Portuguese:
polígrafo
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Russian:
дете́ктор лжи́
(detéktor lží)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Russian:
полигра́ф
(poligráf)
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Swedish:
lögndetektor
— polygraph ''(informal)''
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Turkish:
yalan makinesi
— polygraph ''(informal)''
