[
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
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- 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.
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- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
