lay

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
2. (archaic, transitive) To cause to subside or abate.
3. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
5. (transitive) To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
6. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
7. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
9. (transitive) To state; to allege.
10. (transitive) To point; to aim.
11. (transitive) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
12. (transitive) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
13. (transitive) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
14. (transitive) To apply; to put.
15. (transitive) To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
16. (transitive) To impute; to charge; to allege.
17. (transitive) To present or offer.
18. (intransitive) To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
19. (intransitive) To subside or abate.
20. (intransitive) To take a position; to come or go.
21. (intransitive, proscribed) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Arrangement or relationship; layout.
2. (countable, uncountable) A share of the profits in a business.
3. (countable, uncountable) The direction a rope is twisted.
4. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) A casual sexual partner.
5. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
7. (countable, uncountable) The laying of eggs.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A layer.
9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A basis or ground.
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A pursuit or practice; a dodge.

Noun

A lake.

Adj

1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
3. Not trumps.
4. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

Noun

1. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
2. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.

Noun

A meadow; a lea.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A law.
2. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.

lie

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Concepts

poser

mettre

pondre

coucher

placer

déposer

ballade

laïque

gis

profane

asseoir

🪑

culbuter

appliquer

enlever

laïc

laïcité

mondain

planter

🌱

pose

remettre

retourner

s’asseoir

séculaire

situer

tendre

mettre le couvert

pondeuse

poser sur

positionner

prendre position

séculier

baiser

😗

baiseur

baiseuse

cacher

caqueter

chanson

🎶

engrais

établir

étendre

fumier

imposer

installer

jeter

Synonymes

put

place

set

lay down

put down

secular

install

deposit

ballad

position

locate

spread

arrange

set down

plant

🌱

laic

situate

pose

pave

lie

apply

repose

make

set up

seat

💺

rest

cover

station

🚉

bring forth

produce

assign

bet

unfold

stick

impose

song

🎶

put to bed

establish

put in

put away

put off

build

construct

put on

nonprofessional

amateur

beget

lodge

lie down

lay aside

Traductions

legen

poner

leggen

pôr

mettere

posare

colocar

setzen

acostar

stellen

colocar

zetten

collocare

laico

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/leɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: leyen

Hérité de ancien anglais: leċġan

Appartenant à frison occidental: lizze

Appartenant à néerlandais: leggen

Appartenant à allemand: legen

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: legge

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: leggja

Appartenant à suédois: lägga

Appartenant à islandais: leggja

Appartenant à albanais: lag

Hérité de moyen anglais: laie

Hérité de ancien anglais: lagu

Appartenant à islandais: lögur

Appartenant à latin: lacus

Hérité de moyen anglais: lay

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: leih

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: leich

Appartenant à ancien anglais: lācan

In summary

Inherited from Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian lääse (“to lay; to lie”), West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Cimbrian leng (“to lay”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Limburgish lègke (“to lay”), Luxembourgish leeën (“to lay”), Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to lay”), Danish lægge (“to lay”), Faroese, Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk legga, legge, leggja, leggje (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan, “to lay”), Old French laier, laiier, laire (“to leave”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).

Phrases

He had seen the shooting star and was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere nearby .

Il avait vu l'étoile de tir et avait été persuadé qu'une météorite gisait quelque part à proximité.

He was a devoted lay Methodist for nine years .