lie detector in English

noun
1
an instrument for determining whether a person is telling the truth by testing for physiological changes considered to be associated with lying.
This, to Lily at least, sounded like a good enough answer, one that would definitely qualify under the lie-detector test as the truth.

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1. The lie detector!

2. What does a lie detector measure?

3. Kids have a built-in lie detector.

4. Human lie detector, how does that work?

5. All took and passed a lie detector test.

6. A lie detector is not a foolproof device.

7. Lie detector tests are inadmissible in criminal trials.

8. What's the word on the lie detector test?

9. They say it's part mouse, part lie detector.

10. The suspect didn't pass the lie detector test.

11. He was asked to take a lie detector test .

12. Both men refused to take a lie detector test.

13. Did you take care of that lie detector test yet?

14. The lie detector tests have been the subject of much controversy.

15. Why, he asked, did the only lie detector test given indicate deception?

16. (Discover, December 1980) These physical reactions are what trigger a lie detector.

17. I was able to arrange a lie detector test for tomorrow morning.

18. Too little; far, far, far too much, straight to a lie detector.

19. For his own information, Boesen asked Hicks to take a lie detector test.

20. That is, if we use your fancy PET scan as a lie detector.

21. The court permitted the police to subject him to a lie detector test.

22. The technique is said to be more effective than a lie detector test.

23. For he recorded it on his polygraph lie-detector and compared the timings afterwards.

24. You're a walking lie detector, and I just realized this is a fucking minefield.

25. What happens to that lie detector of yours when it detects your own bullshit?

26. Now a report that handwriting tests could a competitor to the familiar, but unreliable lie detector.

27. Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce as evidence an offer made to Mrs Moon to take a lie detector test.

28. Admissability of Polygraph Tests: The Application of Scientific Standards Post-Daubert For nearly 75 years, psychologically-based evaluations of deceptiveness -- so-called lie-detector tests, now referred to as polygraphs -- have been at the forefront of legal controversy about the admissibility of scientific evidence