lie vs story

lie and story both are nouns.

lie is a verb but story is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lie	Yes	No	Yes	No
story	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, story is a hyponym of lie; that is, story is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than lie:

lie: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
story: a trivial lie

Other hyponyms of lie include fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, jactitation, walloper, whopper, white lie.

lie (noun)	story (noun)
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth	a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
position or manner in which something is situated	a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
	a short account of the news
	a trivial lie
	a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
	a record or narrative description of past events

lie (verb)	story (verb)
tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
assume a reclining position
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
originate (in)
have a place in relation to something else
be and remain in a particular state or condition

Difference between lie and story

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