perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
witness box
witness stand | a box enclosure for a witness when testifying |
| witness | testimony by word or deed to your religious faith |
adverse witness
hostile witness | a witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party, a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined |
| character witness | a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives |
| expert witness | a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about |
| Jehovah's Witness | believer in imminent approach of the millennium, practitioner of active evangelism |
| lay witness | any witness who does not testify as an expert witness |
| material witness | a witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter |
perjurer
false witness | a person who deliberately gives false testimony |
spectator
witness viewer watcher looker | a close observer, someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind), the spectators applauded the performance, television viewers, sky watchers discovered a new star |
witness
witnesser
informant | someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
witness attestant
attestor
attestator | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature |
| witness | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law |
testify attest take the stand
bear witness | give testimony in a court of law |
testify bear witness prove
evidence show | provide evidence for, The blood test showed that he was the father, Her behavior testified to her incompetence |
| witness | be a witness to, She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court |
| witness find see | perceive or be contemporaneous with, We found Republicans winning the offices, You'll see a lot of cheating in this school, The's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions, I want to see results |