lay

lay

lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)

1. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest.
   • 1735, author unknown, The New-England Primer, as reported by Fred R. Shapiro in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Yale University Press, pages 549–550:

     Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

2. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure [...].

   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?

3. (transitive) To leave something somewhere.
4. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 48:

     Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.

5. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

   lay brick

   lay flooring

6. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
7. (transitive) To wager that an event will not take place.
8. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.

lay (plural lays)

1. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
2. The direction a rope is twisted.

   Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

3. A casual sexual partner.

   What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

4. (nonstandard or colloquial) the lay of the land (rather than the standard the lie of the land)

lay (comparative more lay, superlative most lay)

1. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     He hasnt caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. [...] Its a sort of disease. Theres a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, thats it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.

2. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

   They seemed more lay than clerical.

	posare
	to place something down in a position of rest
	to install certain building materials

	deporre
	to deposit an egg

	laico
	non-clergy

	profano
	non-professional

commettere

costruire

fare

mettere

ponere

	appoggiare
	Deporre qualcosa sopra qualcosaltro.

	disporre
	to prepare groundwork, table etc.

	laica
	non-clergy

	lasciare
	to leave something somewhere

	porre
	to place something down in a position of rest

	profana
	non-professional

abbattere

adagiare

affigere

apparecchiare

applicare

collocare

configurazione

dare

depositare

disposizione

distendere

impiegare

pass. di to lie

piantare

posizione

preparare

progettare

ricoprire

riporre

riservare

rivestire

sdraiare

secolare

situare

stendere

tendere

togliere

ubicare

usare

vestire

Altri significati:

The direction a rope is twisted.

lay (a cable)

(transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

place (in position)

lay (pipes)

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

Arrangement or relationship; layout.

Simple past of lie when pertaining to position.

(transitive, slang) To have sex with.

(transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.

(transitive) To place something down in a position of rest.

(nonstandard or colloquial) '''the lay of the land''' (rather than the standard '''the lie of the land)'''

A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.

(proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie.

(transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.

(transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

(transitive) To leave something somewhere.

to have sex with

Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.

(transitive) To wager that an event will not take place.

A casual sexual partner.

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