Определение lay lay в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- lay
- To place something down in a position of rest
- lay
- To leave something somewhere
- lay
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)
Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
- lay
- Simple past of lie when pertaining to position
The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.
- avoir du pois lay
- Stealing brass weights off the counters of shops
- lay
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them
They seemed more lay than clerical.
- lay
- To wager that an event will not take place
- lay
- a short poem or narrative, one usually intended to be sung
- lay
- To cause to subside or abate
But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?.
- lay
- a short song
- lay
- To have sex with
- lay
- To produce and deposit an egg
- lay
- The direction a rope is twisted
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- lay
- Arrangement or relationship; layout
nonstandard or colloquial the lay of the land (rather than the standard the lie of the land).
- lay
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another
lay flooring.
- lay
- A casual sexual partner
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?.
- lay
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution
- lay
- A ballad or sung poem
- lay a finger on
- If you lay a finger on my little brother, I'll have your guts for garters
- lay a finger on
- To merely touch
- lay a foundation
- To make a start
You should lay a foundation, even if you can't finish the project.
- lay a foundation
- To elicit information from a witness to show that the witness has knowledge of a matter before the witness testifies to the matter itself
In order to lay a foundation for the witness to describe the murder, the prosecutor first had to show that the witness was present when the murder occurred.
- lay a venue
- to allege a place
- lay about
- To set about, with infinitive or gerund
- lay about
- To strike blows in all directions
- lay an egg
- To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful
That author usually writes good stuff, but he really laid an egg with that last piece.
- lay an egg
- To produce an egg
- lay at the feet of
- To assign responsibility for (something) to {someone}
- lay bare
- to expose or clarify something
- lay bare
- to make bare; strip
And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. --Byron.
- lay bare
- to expose to view, reveal, uncover
The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal suggestibility were specially emphasized, laying bare the social subconscious, stimulating in it the fear of invasion and attack by neighboring nations, stirring up the impulse of self-preservation, rousing the entranced, hypnotized mind of the populace to a frenzy of self-defense, while the junkers, the officers, the soldiers, the professors, the journalists of the middle-classes were entranced with beatific visions of world-dominion.
- lay brother
- A layman who is a member of a brotherhood without the intention to become a priest
The male branch of the Franciscan family, a community of Lesser Brothers, is made up of men who are both clergy and consecrated laity traditionally called lay brothers.'.
- lay by
- To tend (a crop) for the last time, leaving it to mature without further cultivation
- lay by
- Alternative form of lay-by
- lay by
- To put away for future use; put aside; store; save; hoard; to build up as savings
He had managed to lay by money for college through his years as a paperboy.
- lay by
- To remain stationary while heading into the wind; to come to a standstill; heave to; lay to
- lay day
- A day in which a vessel may load or unload a cargo without paying an extra charge
- lay down
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies)
You've got to lay down the law with that boy.
- lay down
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- lay down
- To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting
I feel a bit ill, so I'm going to go lay down for a while.
- lay down
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground
Lay down your arms.
- lay down
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by
- lay down the law
- To present the law that applies to a given case
- lay down the law
- To promulgate law
- lay down the law
- To authoritatively or dogmatically assert what is permitted or not permitted
- lay figure
- An unimportant person
- lay figure
- A jointed model of the human body used by artists, or to display clothes
- lay hands on
- To find, obtain or procure
If we can lay hands on some chicken wire and a black light, we can make some scary Halloween decorations.
- lay hold of
- To obtain
- lay hold of
- To seize; catch; apprehend
- lay into
- To berate; to scold
- lay into
- To beat up
- lay it on the line
- To state something, for example an ultimatum, strongly and clearly
- lay it on thick
- To flatter
He knew he needed to lay it on thick in his job interview.
- lay it on thick
- To guilt, guilt-trip
Her mother laid it on thick, telling her to call home more often.
- lay it on thick
- To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion
She laid it on thick when her pet died.
- lay low
- to remain hidden or to hide oneself
I’m going to lay low for a bit in case the police come looking.
- lay low
- to knock out; to cause to fall
He was laid low by a vicious blow to the head.
- lay off
- To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume, often with a severance package
- lay off
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something)
When are you gonna lay off smoking?.
- lay off
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk
- lay off
- To stop bothering, annoying, teasing, pestering, pressuring, being aggressive with, or hovering over someone; to leave (someone) alone
Lay off it, already!.
- lay open
- In Japan and South Korea, to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration
- lay out
- to expend
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.
- lay out
- to concoct; think up
It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.
- lay out
- to arrange in a certain way
Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;.
- lay over
- To make an intermediary stop somewhere
- lay person
- An alternative spelling of layperson. While lay person is not uncommon the spelling layperson seems to be more common and by analogy with the words layman and laywoman the single word spelling more logical
- lay preacher
- A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in a religious denomination
- lay preachers
- plural form of lay preacher
- lay reader
- A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services
- lay readers
- plural form of lay reader
- lay rubber
- To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire
- lay siege
- To attack continually over a long period
They're laying siege to all we hold dear.
- lay siege
- To besiege, to engage in a siege
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
- lay speaker
- A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services
- lay speakers
- plural form of lay speaker
- lay the groundwork
- To create a foundation; to provide the basics or fundamentals
The introductory mathematics courses will lay the groundwork for all your subsequent engineering studies.
- lay the pipe
- To have penetrative sex with a woman
- lay the smack down
- To start a fight
- lay to rest
- To bury one who has died
He was laid to rest beneath the old oak tree in 1825.
- lay up
- To go out of active service
- lay up
- To disable
- lay up
- To make a layup with (a basketball)
He takes the pass, he drives, he lays it up and in.
- lay up
- To store; to put by
I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose.
- lay up
- To take out of active service
- lay waste
- To completely destroy
The hurricane laid waste to the better part of several counties.
- lay-by
- A railroad siding; a second, short railroad track just to the side of a railroad track, connected with the main track by a switch and used for unloading, bypassing, etc
- lay-by
- A widened section of a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free, for mooring of vessels, where vessels can lay over or allow others to pass
- lay-by
- A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones
- lay-by
- A method of retail purchase in which the customer chooses goods and the shop sets them aside and lets the customer pay them off over time, with the customer receiving them when fully paid. US/UK: layaway
Both quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter X, section 2, page 206.
- lay-in
- A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim
- re-lay
- To lay again, as flooring, railroad track
- lay
- Past tense of lie. the past tense of lie
- lay off
- postpone; fire, dismiss from a job
- lay one's cards on the table
- speak frankly, be honest, not hold back
- lay a trap
- set a trap to catch someone or something
- lay one's life on the line
- Sacrifice one's life for a cause or for another
- lay
- {v} to put, place, apply, wager, calm, still, bring eggs, contrive
- lay
- {a} laical
- lay
- {n} a song, grassy ground, row, wager
- lay of the land
- (deyim) The natural features of a piece of land, such as hills and valleys
- lay something on the table
- (deyim) Present a matter for discussion
I went to the meeting and laid my concerns about the new product on the table.
- lay your hands on something
- (deyim) to succeed in obtaining something
- lay-by
- (noun) Austral./NZ & S. African a system of paying a deposit to secure an article for later purchase
