laying
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Definitions oflaying
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
Example: "A shower of rain lays the dust."
- To cause to subside or abate.
Synonyms: becalm, "settle down"
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
Example: "lay brick; lay flooring"
- To produce and deposit an egg.
Example: "Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?"
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
Example: "I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday."
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To have sex with.
Synonyms: "lie by", "lie with", "sleep with"
- To take a position; to come or go.
Example: "to lay forward; to lay aloft"
- To state; to allege.
Example: "to lay the venue"
- To point; to aim.
Example: "to lay a gun"
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
Example: "to lay a cable or rope"
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To apply; to put.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
Example: "to lay a tax on land"
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To present or offer.
Example: "to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one"
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
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