lay

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Concepts

lay

put

place

set

lay down

put down

install

secular

deposit

locate

position

set down

spread

laic

ballad

arrange

plant

apply

pose

pave

lie

repose

situate

bring forth

cover

rest

set up

produce

make

seat

station

put away

put in

put on

put to bed

assign

put off

song

unfold

establish

impose

bet

construct

stick

build

stow

expose

take off

waive

stake

draw

fix

spawn

twist

amateur

inexperienced

nonprofessional

laical

wager

present

submit

attribute

impute

knock down

lay out

dispose

hatch

stage

exact

give

lay aside

stand

canto

singing

beget

engender

generate

give birth to

render

invest

lodge

lay egg

instal

compose

fuck

spread out

lie down

enclose

insert

introduce

add

administer

append

attach

employ

make use of

paste

practice

put onto

turn to account

use

pass oneself off

posture

ensnare

spread a net

bring into existence

found

lay the foundation of

keep

challenge

commence

wage

hide

lay something upside down

turn something over

spread all over

partner

prepare

smooth down

cause

bury

have sex

ascribe

not trained

untrained

short poem

common

nonecclesiastical

profane

unprofessional

inexpert

fallow

unploughed

cause to lie

prostrate

level

fell

beat down

knock over

floor

ground

raze

throw to the ground

align

assemble

bear

oviposit

forward

offer

proffer

enunciate

elucidate

make a presentation of

formulate

form

devise

concoct

organize

plan

put together

depict

levy

charge

assess

demand

fine

allot

allocate

lend

gamble

hazard

give odds

business

lair

coitus

sexual intercourse

strew

tendency

defer

postpone

put aside

put by

put on clothes

give birth

canticle

chant

strain

bear out

born

breed

calve

litter

originate

procreate

sire

whelp

bring forward

widow

worldly

cosmic

mundane

secularistic

temporal

demotic

folksy

popular

collocate

instate

posit

post

distribute a bonus

receive dividends

share profit

house

implantation

imposition

riding

hank

strand

whip

wind

wring

lea

ley

meadow grass rotation

layup

paving

covering

nonexpert

fertilizer

manure

be laid

lay on

pawn

create

settle

constitute

issue

perch

range

reset

ballade

minstrelsy

draw up

frame

loft

write out

write up

ready

anthem

carol

ditty

twitter

vocal

blow

fuck up

loiter

bang

brew

eff

excommunication

hump

screw

wedge

collect

dun

inherit

succeed

base

deploy

embed

emplace

fort

fund

grubstake

inset

marshal

put up

rank

seed

site

commit

action

author

confect

do

equal

pay

put through

run

work

give rise

lower

kidnap

elegy

stretch out

lead

lie on

feed

on

fit

nonreligious

lay an egg

command

dictate

order

extend

layman

heap

pile

stack

pour

throw

sit down

sleep

store

excrete

Pronounced as (IPA)

/leɪ/

Etymology

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 West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).