[
US
/ˈɫeɪ/
]
[ UK /lˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /lˈeɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
set his collar in laic rather than clerical position
the lay ministry -
not of or from a profession
a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease
VERB
-
put in a horizontal position
lay the patient carefully onto the bed
lay the books on the table -
impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
lay a responsibility on someone -
prepare or position for action or operation
lay the foundation for a new health care plan
lay a fire -
put into a certain place or abstract location
Place emphasis on a certain point
Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Set the tray down
Put your things here -
lay eggs
This hen doesn't lay
NOUN
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
How To Use lay In A Sentence
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
- He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
- Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands